Todd Rose Quotes

#1. You no longer need to fly a World War II aircraft in an age of jet fighters, and you no longer need to weigh yourself against a non-existent Norma.

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#2. The hardest part of learning something new is not embracing new ideas, but letting go of old ones.

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#3. Evaluate the demands in your child's life (at home and at school) - and find at least one "cognitive unicycle" that may be sabotaging him or her. Then, if you can, get rid of it.

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#4. Failing well - that is, staying calm through adversity and recognizing what can be learned from mistakes - is a foundation of success in a variety of fields.

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#5. From the cradle to the grave, you are measured against the ever-present yardstick of the average, judged according to how closely you approximate it or how far you are able to exceed it.

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#6. Our modern conception of the average person is not a mathematical truth but a human invention, created a century and a half ago by two European scientists to solve the social problems of their era.

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