If you are lucky enough to never experience any sort of adversity, we won’t know how resilient you are. It’s only when you’re faced with obstacles, stress, and other environmental threats that resilience, or the lack of it, emerges: Do you succumb or do you surmount? Maria Konnikova Read Quote
Our memory is and always will be as good as time travel gets, and in the meantime time will do the travelling for us. Maria Konnikova Read Quote
If we rush too quickly to be scientific, to begin our experiment or catch our criminal as soon as possible, we risk never getting to the answer at all. Maria Konnikova Read Quote
The cognitive skills that underpin resilience, then, seem like they can indeed be learned over time, creating resilience where there was none. Maria Konnikova Read Quote
Where anger can be seen as a relative positive in a man, it is hardly ever perceived as anything other than a negative in a woman. Maria Konnikova Read Quote
We tend to dismiss things we don’t particularly like, or that we find disturbing, as aberrations. Maria Konnikova Read Quote
Once the notion of time travel starts to come naturally to the human mind, it is supremely easy to assimilate it into our mode of thinking. Maria Konnikova Read Quote
Not only is the past of a person with no memory inaccessible; his ability to think about the future is imperilled. Time travel, then, is ultimately – and paradoxically – an exercise in remembering. And without that capacity it simply cannot exist. Maria Konnikova Read Quote
Bullying is the result of an unequal power dynamic – the strong attacking the weak. Maria Konnikova Read Quote
