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It's A Deep And All But Certain Truth About Narcissistic Personalities That To Meet Them Is To Love Them, But To Know Them Well Is To Find Them Unbearable. Confidence Quickly Curdles Into Arrogance; Smarts Turn To Smugness, Charm Turns To Smarm.

The Vexing Thing About Human Behavior Is That When We Say We Know We Should Do Something, We Really And Truly Do Know It. It's Hard To Be 50 Lbs. Overweight Or Smoke A Pack A Day Or Feel Miserable Every Moment You Spend At Work And Not Understand In A Deep And Primal Way That Change Is In Order - And That In Some Cases It Could Even Save Your Life.

There Are A Lot Of Ways To Make People Not Like You, But One Of The Most Powerful - If Least Fair - Is To Be Really, Really Successful. Nobody Resents The Guy Who Just Lost His Job. But The Guy Whose Internet Start-up Made Him A Billionaire At 25? That's A Whole Different Kettle Of Envy.

The Mind Of The Polyglot Is A Very Particular Thing, And Scientists Are Only Beginning To Look Closely At How Acquiring A Second Language Influences Learning, Behavior And The Very Structure Of The Brain Itself.

A Close Family Member Once Offered His Opinion That I Exhibit The Phone Manners Of A Goat, Then Promptly Withdrew The Charge - Out Of Fairness To Goats.