"Courage is what you earn when you’ve been through the tough times and you discover they aren’t so tough after all”.Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.” “The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.Putting deliberate emphasis on a skill can make other disabilities that would normally be cues for failure meaningless.Desirable Difficulty: not all difficulties are negative.Having peers who outperform you by large deviations will make you feel dumb.If a student would attend a smaller institution (little pond) where they can be given the proper attention and not be debilitated via comparison with the superstars, they can thrive, and even achieve more than the big fish.Great students can develop fixed mindsets through comparison with students way out of their league (the big fish).Entering an environment that disenfranchises your abilities to compete due to such large disparities in ability.Relative Deprivation: our impressions are not formed globally, but by placing ourselves in local categories that we compare excessively to people in similar areas or circumstances.Nearly everything of consequence follows the inverted U.Right Side: Doing more or having more makes things worse.Middle: Doing more does not make much of a difference.Left Side: Doing more or having more makes things better.Inverted U-Curve: A model that helps us conceptualize that too much can be a bad thing.Many advantages are shrouds for the large weaknesses they hold.
This is my book summary of David and Goliath by Malcolm Gladwell. Once the underdogs realize it is the perspective that they take that impacts the outcome, obstacles, weakness, and adversity become the tools that breed strength, resilience, and grit. To beat the Goliath’s (giants), the David’s (underdogs) can choose to play by a different set of rules.
The conventional wisdom underlying what we identify as advantages and disadvantages are not for everyone.
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