Doing things Quote by Megan McArdle

It is a vast, and pervasive, cognitive mistake to assume that people who agree with you (or disagree) do so on the same criteria…

— Megan McArdle

“Dweck encourages parents and teachers to praise children for their effort, rather than their intelligence, talent, or looks.”

— Megan McArdle

“If they’re forced into a challenge they don’t feel prepared for, they may even engage in what psychologists call “self-handicapping”: deliberately doing things that…

— Megan McArdle

We have made it impossible for children to fall very far—and in so doing, we have robbed them of the joys of climbing high.

— Megan McArdle

The up side of down: why failing well is the key to success.

— Megan McArdle

“Most of all, learning to fail well means overcoming our natural instincts to blame someone—maybe ourselves—whenever something goes wrong.”

— Megan McArdle

Over the years, I developed a theory about why writers are such procrastinators: We were too good in English class. This sounds crazy, but…

— Megan McArdle

“The alternative to villains who have done something wrong is a universe where bad things sometimes happen to people who don’t deserve them.”

— Megan McArdle

“...simple things, but each error made the other ones more dangerous, like sticks of kindling to a roaring fire”

— megan mcardle

“object is to take lots of small, manageable risks, because that, he says, is the only way to figure out what really works.”

— Megan McArdle

If we wanted a program to help the majority of the population, we'd offer loan guarantees to help poor people get access to reliable…

— Megan McArdle

“the people who dislike challenges think that talent is a fixed thing that you’re either born with or not. The people who relish them…

— Megan McArdle