By admitting your inadequacies, you show that you're self-aware enough to know your areas for improvement - and secure enough to be open about them.

If you want to find out if someone's a taker, it's not actually that useful to know what they've accomplished. What you want to want to know is how they explain them.

When you're good at controlling your own emotions, you can disguise your true feelings. When you know what others are feeling, you can tug at their heartstrings and motivate them to act against their own best interests.

If you want your children to bring original ideas into the world, you need to let them pursue their passions, not yours.

The mark of higher education isn't the knowledge you accumulate in your head. It's the skills you gain about how to learn.

Bragging about yourself violates norms of modesty and politeness - and if you were really competent, your work would speak for itself.