It's impossible to imagine the Democratic Party seeking a pro-life, free-trading, non-protectionist, deficit hawk.
This is the biggest problem in analytics today.
The most basic way to get someone's attention is this: Break a pattern.
The first problem of communication is getting people's attention.
Anger prepares us to fight and fear prepares us to flee.
Lots of us have expertise in particular areas. Becoming an expert in something means that we become more and more fascinated by nuance and complexity. That's when the Curse of Knowledge kicks in, and we start to forget what it's like not to know what we know.
Success emerges from the quality of the decisions we make and the quantity of luck we receive. We can't control luck. But we can control the way we make choices.
To endure oneself may be the hardest task in the universe. You cannot hire a wise man or any other intellect to solve it for you. There's no writ of inquest or calling of witness to provide answers.
The loss of magic is the denial of unlimited possibility.
You are the only problem you will ever have and you are the only solution.
Michael Jackson wanted to be in Men in Black II. He told me he had seen the first Men in Black in Paris and had stayed behind and sat there and wept. I had to explain to him that it was a comedy.