Status Updates From David and Goliath: Underdog...

The basis of empathy: We must have once felt supported, comforted, and understood in our suffering, which gives us a model of how to feel for others. But people with bleak childhoods, never had that kind of privilege.

Innovators need to be conscientious, creative and disagreeable. IKEA Swedish founder, Ingvar Kampard, he understood that much of the cost of furniture was tied up in its assembly, so he sold furniture that hasn’t been assembled in flat boxes, and under, sold all his competitors. In the 1950, he faced boycotts. However, he was open-minded and outsourced to Poland, a communist country and the peak of the Cold War

Concept: desirable difficulties, what is learnt out of necessity is more powerful than learning that comes easily

- learning disabilities affect 1/3 of CEOs eg richard Branson, Charles Schwab, David neeleman (JetBlue founder)

- David boies: famous lawyer who has dyslexia. He was a great listener because his listening skills compensated for his reading abilities

Next few chapters were about basketball, salon & the impressionists, big fish in a small pond vs small fish in a big pond. Interesting insights about relative deprivation (how the big pond demoralises high performing students) and evidence

The introduction on David and Goliath was really good. It wasn’t something I was aware of. A giant (Goliath) asking for a one on one combat battle with the Israelites - no one but David a shepherd offered to fight and he won spectacularly with his own means (swinging). Underdogs need to win in unconventional ways and whenever that happens, the odds are always higher for the underdogs.