一个不太聪明但沟通能力不错的人，可能会比一个超级聪明但沟通能力欠缺的人更成功。这是个好消息，因为提高沟通能力的提高，比智商的提高要容易得多。

The world is like a chessboard， whereon we may see a living knight， but we cannot see a living chess.

The first fruit of this imagination - and the first lesson of the social science that embodies it - is the idea that the individual can understand his own experience and gauge his own fate only by locating himself within his period, that he can know his own chances in life only by becoming aware of those of all individuals in his circumstances.