Wisdom in fragments

We can take a hell of a lot more stress than we believe we can. We should learn how to fight not flight. And fight doesn't have to be a physical thing – it can be that you feel something's going to be uncomfortable 'okay well let's avoid it'. No, go through with it but go through with it in a progressive manner.

Boxing coach of Conor McGregor at Straight Blast Gym Dublin

It's like playing chess but while getting punched in the face.

Boxing coach of Conor McGregor at Straight Blast Gym Dublin

If you want to grow, you need to go through something uncomfortable and come out the other end. If you want to grow, you have to go forward in progressive steps. It should always be a little bit uncomfortable because otherwise there's no growth.

Boxing coach of Conor McGregor at Straight Blast Gym Dublin

I approached fighting, and each contest, as an experiment. I would develop hypotheses on what strategies and techniques were winning, I would set-up experiments (or go into fights)- try them out- run tests- look at the results and try to be as unemotional as possible.

Boxing coach of Conor McGregor at Straight Blast Gym Dublin

What's the business hip hop of this post pandemic world? Who's going to be the Rapper's Delight of the post pandemic world?

Billionaire Investor, Shark Tank Investor & Dallas Mavericks Owner

You have to re-earn your customer's business every single day – it's not just about listening to them, but anticipating what they don't realise they need, and staying ahead of them.

Billionaire Investor, Shark Tank Investor & Dallas Mavericks Owner

Your competitors are looking for the product, idea or feature that gives such a competitive advantage that they can take all your customers away from you. You need to work like someone's trying to take it all away from you, because they are.

Billionaire Investor, Shark Tank Investor & Dallas Mavericks Owner

Taking that first step is your biggest competitive advantage; most people won't do it.

Billionaire Investor, Shark Tank Investor & Dallas Mavericks Owner

Fear depends on your context, and how much you think you have to lose. You may be young or broke and have nothing to lose. In that case? Either you figure out a way to get something, or you don't get it. Simple.

Billionaire Investor, Shark Tank Investor & Dallas Mavericks Owner

We can expand our circle of sympathy – we can employ the logic of impartiality, and the emotional prompts of human contact and vicarious experience, and expand our fellow-feeling from our family to our clan, our nation, tribe, and from there to all of humanity and even other sentient beings.

Cognitive Scientist & Psychologist Known for Research on Language and Human Nature

Our capacity to reason is recursive, combinatorial – we can reason about our reason – we can argue, criticise and develop tools that enhance our reason thanks to language and communication. We have the power to build on our reason, to enhance it.

Cognitive Scientist & Psychologist Known for Research on Language and Human Nature

I cannot argue that my own interests are special simply because I'm me and you're not and expect that you will take me seriously. The nature of logic forces us to cede our own pre-eminence, because there is nothing in the pronoun 'you' or 'he' or 'she' which confers some special status.

Cognitive Scientist & Psychologist Known for Research on Language and Human Nature

There has never been a time at which Enlightenment values predominated in any culture. They have always faced pushback from forces that are embedded in human nature – tribalism, deference to authority, magical thinking, vulnerability to cognitive illusions and biases.

Cognitive Scientist & Psychologist Known for Research on Language and Human Nature

The theory describes only the way objects interact with one another, without indicating what happens between one interaction and the next one.

Theoretical physicist known for loop quantum gravity research and popular science writing

Quantum mechanics says our world is nebulous, fuzzy, a haze of possibilities until it somehow snaps to attention upon an appropriate interaction, observation or measurement. That's a very strange reality, and the fact that this theory is so demonstrably correct is radically important to our understanding.

Theoretical Physicist & Bestselling Author on String Theory & Cosmology

Without quantum mechanics, we wouldn't have the modern world… we wouldn't have electronics… we wouldn't have understood the semi-conductor, the computer chip…. All of our modern technology relies on this mathematical description of the world of the very small.

Theoretical physicist, author, and BBC science communicator known for public engagement