Confidence is contagious, but so is failure. Even the Yankees will lose if you persuade them that they will.

Confidence isn't optimism or pessimism, and it's not a character attribute. It's the expectation of a positive outcome.

When you fail at something, the best thing to do is think back to your successes, and try to replicate whatever you did to make them happen.

The boomers' biggest impact will be on eliminating the term 'retirement' and inventing a new stage of life, ... the new career arc.

The boomers' biggest impact will be on eliminating the term 'retirement' and inventing a new stage of life... the new career arc.

Some social scientists say that in-group/out-group biases are hard-wired into the human brain. Even without overt prejudice, it is cognitively convenient for people to sort items into categories and respond based on what is usually associated with those categories: a form of statistical discrimination, playing the odds.