I'm a huge believer in low self-esteem. You know, it's the key to success. If you don't think you're the smartest person in the room, you just shut up and you pay attention.

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Being told all the way through your school years that you are somehow less than the rest of the people in your class must have had a devastating effect on her... How could you not feel that you were somehow inadequate? And it was only after she left school where she truly flourished.

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From an evolutionary perspective, the task of childhood is to become independent of parents. So children are born with very strong drives to play, to explore, away from adults. That away from adults is a big part of it because they need to get away from adults in order to practice the skills required for becoming an adult.

Peter Gray — TED Radio Hour

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