Malcolm Gladwell: David and Goliath
Socrates in the City
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The Reverse Psychology of Refusal
"I was boxed in first by my country and cycling by my mother," he says. "My mother had foreclosed all forms of rebellion by refusing to disapprove of anything that I did" In high school, his best friend's mom also lined up with him firmly in favor of truancy. So the pair came up with a system where they would compete not on the basis of their average, but of their grades times absences.
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