“Kids are starting at such a low base rate in terms of fitness that it's taking them years to catch up to where people like me started from. Every little bit is making it more difficult for kids to succeed on a world stage.” PeopleWorldYearsLittlesKidsBitsDifficultTermStageSucceedLittle BitLowsRateStartingLike Me Author:Daley Thompson
“GREAT SECRET Whenever I’m learning something difficult, I keep expectations low, and aspirations high.” DifficultSecretLowsExpectationsAspiration Author:James Marcus
“Power. like the diamond, dazzles the beholder, and also the wearer; it dignifies meanness; it magnifies littleness; to what is contemptible, it gives authority; to what is low, exaltation. To acquire it, appears not more difficult than to be dispossessed of it when acquired, since it enables the holder to shift his own errors on dependents, and to take their merits to himself. But the miracle of losing it vanishes, when we reflect that we are as liable to fall as to rise, by the treachery of others; and that to say "I am" is language that has been appropriated exclusively to God!” GivingHas BeensFallLanguageDifficultAuthorityLosingLowsMiracleErrorsMeritAcquireDiamondLiableMeannessTreacheryBeholderExaltationDazzle Book:Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think Source: Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think
“The strangest thing about the low quality of Internet argument is that effective argument isnt really so difficult. Sure, not everyone can be Clarence Darrow, but anyone who wants to be at least competent at argument can do it.” WantDifficultCan DoQualityInternetLowsArgumentCompetent Author:Barry Eisler
“People infer high self-efficacy from successes achieved through minimal effort on difficult tasks, but they infer low self-efficacy if they had to work hard under favorable conditions to master relatively easy tasks” PeopleIfsSelfHardEasyDifficultEffortConditionsMastersHard WorkLowsTasksEfficacySelf EfficacyDifficult TasksEasy TasksMinimal Effort Author:Albert Bandura