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A stunning story about how power works in the modern age?the book the New York Times called ?one helluva page-turner? and The Sunday Times of London celebrated as ?riveting?an astonishing modern media conspiracy that is a fantastic read.? Pick up the book everyone is talking about. In 2007, a short blogpost on Valleywag, the Silicon Valley-vertical of Gawker Media, outed PayPal founder and billio

We live in a world that’s obsessed with talent. We celebrate gifted students in school, natural athletes in sports, and child prodigies in music. But admiring people who start out with innate advantages leads us to overlook the distance we ourselves can travel. We underestimate the range of skills that we can learn and how good we can become. We can all improve at improving. And when oppo