Canadian journalist and bestselling author exploring patterns of success, behavioral psychology, and cultural phenomena.
My job is to take something people already know and show them it differently. Help them see the familiar from a completely new angle.
The hardest thing for us is to admit we're wrong. But when we do, it changes us and we become smarter.
When we see people or phenomena that look like exceptions, we often assume they operate by different rules. But they usually follow the very same rules, just more vividly.
Talent is not something you're born with. It's something you develop. It takes serious practice over many years to become truly good at something.
Ideas and behavior and products and messages often spread like epidemics, and when they do, a small number of people influence all the rest.
We tend to see the world as a sequence of logical events, but actually the world is full of branches and uncertainty. You cannot predict the future, only spot patterns of the past.
History is not made by great people in isolation. It's made by networks of people, small moments, and the confluence of circumstances you couldn't have foreseen.