And what I noted, since the really big ideas carry 95 percent of the freight, it wasn’t at all that hard for me to pick up all the big ideas and all the big disciplines and make them a standard part of my mental routines. Once you have the ideas, of course, they are no good if you don’t practice. You don’t practice, you lose it.
我发现，从所有的学科吸取我所需要的95%的知识，并将它们变成我思维习惯的一部分，也不是很难的事情。当然，掌握了这些道理后之后，你们必须通过实践去使用它们。若不付诸实践，终究徒劳。
建立习惯的目的，是不用自我谈判，不在决定做一件事上花费精力，你直接就做了。好的习惯包括讲真话、用牙线。
To understand the mind, we must first understand its evolutionary purpose.
布巴告诉过我所有和捕虾有关的事情，但你知道我有什么发现吗？捕虾很难的。我只捕到五只。
Looking back at the 21-year-old that I was at graduation, is a slightly uncomfortable experience for the 42-year-old that she has become. Half my lifetime ago, I was striking an uneasy balance between the ambition I had for myself, and what those closest to me expected of me.