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I Grew Up In A Suburb Of Baltimore With An Extremely High Concentration Of Jewish Families - Where The Levys And Cohens In The High School Yearbook Went On For Pages, Where I Could Count Far More Temples Than I Ever Could Churches. Anti-semitism, In Our Cultural Biodome, Was Mostly An Abstract Concept.

What People Fear Most About Tragedy Is Its Randomness - A Taxi Cab Jumps The Curb And Hits A Pedestrian, A Gun Misfires And Kills A Bystander. Better To Have Some Rational Cause And Effect Between Incident And Injury. And If Cause And Effect Aren't Possible, Better That There At Least Be Some Reward For All The Suffering.

It's Far Too Much To Say That Effective Hoping Is The Only - Or Even The Biggest - Part Of What It Takes To Succeed. If 14% Of Business Productivity Can Be Attributed To Hope, That Means 86% Is Dependent On Raw Talent, Fickle Business Cycles, The Quality Of The Product You're Selling, And Often Pure, Dumb Luck.

There's Only One Thing Harder Than Living In A Home With An Adolescent - And That's Being An Adolescent. The Moodiness, The Volatility, The Wholesale Lack Of Impulse Control, All Would Be Close To Clinical Conditions If They Occurred At Another Point In Life. In Adolescence, They're Just Part Of The Behavioral Portfolio.

The Vexing Thing About Human Behavior Is That When We Say We Know We Should Do Something, We Really And Truly Do Know It. It's Hard To Be 50 Lbs. Overweight Or Smoke A Pack A Day Or Feel Miserable Every Moment You Spend At Work And Not Understand In A Deep And Primal Way That Change Is In Order - And That In Some Cases It Could Even Save Your Life.