A successful executive once told me that, when he was 15, he was obese. Back then, concerned about his health if he remained that way for long, he adopted a plan to eat well and play sports, hoping to improve. Two years later, he had lost 90 pounds. This moment he described as an “inflection point,” because, having accomplished what…
“[S]ome difference must necessarily exist between individual and individual, for there must be some more exalted than the rest either by their riches or their talents; so in this, there are what you might call the high, the middling, and the low; and this difference will always be more remarkable among people who live by sea excursions than among those…