Confidence Quickly Curdles Into Arrogance; Smarts Turn

A Mere Ape In Our World May Be A Scholar In Its Own, And The Low Life Of Any Beast May Be A Source Of Deep Satisfaction For The Beast Itself.

If You're An Older Sibling And You Have A Younger Sibling Who Needs Mentoring Or Is Afraid Of The Dark, You Develop Nurturing And Empathic Skills That You Wouldn't Otherwise Have.

Ambition Is An Expensive Impulse, One That Requires An Enormous Investment Of Emotional Capital. Like Any Investment, It Can Pay Off In Countless Different Kinds Of Coin.

If We Were A Culture Of High-risk Alcoholics, And Suddenly We Had Jack Daniels Piped Into Our Houses, We Would Be Feeding That Fire. Social Networking, And The Internet As A Whole, Seems To Have Simply Landed In An Extremely Fertile Place In An Extremely Fertile Time In History, When We All Have These Narcissistic Tendencies Anyway - You Can Go Further Back Into The Self-esteem Movement, And Dr. Spock, And The 'everybody Gets A Ribbon At The Track Meet' Sort Of Thing, Which Preceded The Internet - And Then You Drop The Internet Into The Middle Of This, And We've All Gone Haywire.

There's Only One Thing Harder Than Living In A Home With An Adolescent - And That's Being An Adolescent. The Moodiness, The Volatility, The Wholesale Lack Of Impulse Control, All Would Be Close To Clinical Conditions If They Occurred At Another Point In Life. In Adolescence, They're Just Part Of The Behavioral Portfolio.