You’ve got to have models in your head. And you’ve got to array your experience—both vicarious and direct—on this latticework of models. You may have noticed students who just try to remember and pound back what is remembered. Well, they fail in school and in life. You’ve got to hang experience on a latticework of models in your mind.

To be a Negro in America is to be in a constant state of rage.

The concept of 'loss aversion' plays a critical role in decision-making, where the pain of losing is psychologically twice as powerful as the pleasure of gaining.

The worse a situation becomes, the less it takes to turn it around, the bigger the upside.

并不是我很聪明，而只是我和问题相处得比较久一点。