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“The Tennessee experiment contained a startling result. Chetty was able to predict the success that students achieved as adults simply by looking at who taught their kindergarten class. By age 25, students who happened to have had more experienced kindergarten teachers were earning significantly more money than their peers.”
― Adam M. Grant, Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things

“Dalton had built the chess equivalent of an Olympic training center. Each kindergartner took a semester of chess, and every first grader studied the game”
― Adam M. Grant, Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things

“Often, the only polite thing to do if one has accomplished something significant is to instead make fun of oneself.”
― David Graeber, Debt: The First 5,000 Years

“What any person in the world can learn, almost all persons can learn,”
― Adam M. Grant, Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things