Spare A Thought For The Poor Introverts

There's A Sort Of Sibling Moratorium When You're Establishing Yourself As An Adult. So Much Of Your Energy Has To Be Focused On Other Things Like Work And Kids. But When People Become More Settled, Siblings Tend To Regroup Because Now You're Building A New Extended Family.

Narcissism Is Actually A Clever Guise Adopted To Mask Its Exact Opposite, Which Is A Deep Well Of Self-loathing, A Well Of Low Self-esteem, Rather Than High Self-esteem. This Helps Explain Why Narcissists Are So Sensitive To Criticism, Why Narcissists Tend To Break Into Outrage If They're Criticized, Because Their Self-esteem Is Actually Much More Brittle Than It Seems, And Once They're Challenged, That Mask Falls Apart.

Tamerlan Tsarnaev Is Telling No Tales. The Older Of The Two Brothers Who Committed The Boston Marathon Bombings Was Likely The One Who Planned The Attack, But When He Died In A Shootout With Police Just Days After The Blasts, His Thoughts And Motivations Vanished With Him.

It's Far Too Much To Say That Effective Hoping Is The Only - Or Even The Biggest - Part Of What It Takes To Succeed. If 14% Of Business Productivity Can Be Attributed To Hope, That Means 86% Is Dependent On Raw Talent, Fickle Business Cycles, The Quality Of The Product You're Selling, And Often Pure, Dumb Luck.

Athletes Often Start Life At The Opposite End Of The Wealth And Prestige Spectrum, But As Soon As They Exhibit An Unusual Talent For Swinging A Bat Or Sinking A Free-throw They May Find That The Rules Have Been Suspended For Them. They Are Waved Through School And Into The Pros, And Incidents Of Bad Behavior Are Overlooked Or Covered Up.