Truly successful decision-making relies on a balance between deliberate and instinctive thinking.

That term, 'David and Goliath,' has entered our language as a metaphor for improbable victories by some weak party over someone far stronger.

The fact of being an underdog changes people in ways that we often fail to appreciate. It opens doors and creates opportunities and enlightens and permits things that might otherwise have seemed unthinkable.

The visionary starts with a clean sheet of paper, and re-imagines the world.

I'm just trying to say that it should reassure us that the inevitable traumas of being human do end up producing some good. Otherwise, the human condition is overwhelmingly depressing.

A lot of what is most beautiful about the world arises from struggle.