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In other words, all the children are now above average. In 2012, for example, the most frequently given grade at Harvard was a straight A. At Yale, more than 60 percent of all grades are either A- or A. That can happen now and then in a particular class, but that’s almost impossible across an entire university in any normal grade distribution, even among the brightest students.
The Death of Expertise
Tom Nichols
Everything we know in aviation, every rule in the rule book, every procedure we have, we know because someone somewhere died . . . We have purchased at great cost, lessons literally bought with blood that we have to preserve as institutional knowledge and pass on to succeeding generations. We cannot have the moral failure of forgetting these lessons and have to relearn them.
Black Box Thinking
Matthew Syed
The Looking Paradox
Sometimes you have to stop looking in order to find what you're looking for.
Ever notice that when you're looking for something, you rarely find it?
Stop looking—what you’re looking for may just find you.
This applies to love, business, happiness, & life.
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