14 Quotes by Donald O. Clifton

Rather, your smartness and your effectiveness depend on how well you capitalize on your strongest connections.

If nature didn’t whittle down your network to a smaller number of strongly forged connections, you would never become an adult. You would remain a permanent child, frozen in sensory overload.

At an early age, you started hearing it: It’s a virtue to be “well-rounded.“... They might as well have said : Become as dull as you possibly can be.

The second flaw is that some activities, almost by definition, defy being broken down into steps.

But not unlike the gremlins in the film of the same name who were transformed into nasty little critters if they were splashed or if they were fed after midnight, irrelevant nontalents can mutate into real weaknesses under one condition: As soon as you find yourself in a role that requires you to play to one of your nontalents-or area of low skills or knowledge-a weakness is born.