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To begin with, the phrase “running out of fuel” has no meaning in Air Traffic Control terminology. All planes, as they approach their destination, are by definition running out of fuel. Did Klotz mean that 052 no longer had enough fuel to make it to another, alternative airport? Did he mean that they were beginning to get worried about their fuel? Next, consider the structure of the critical sentence.
The term used by linguists to describe what Klotz was engaging in in that moment is “mitigated speech,” which refers to any attempt to downplay or sugarcoat the meaning of what is being said.
Planes are safer when the least experienced pilot is flying, because it means the second pilot isn’t going to be afraid to speak up.
KWACANG: It’s cold and I’m kind of hungry. [MEANING: Why don’t you buy a drink or something to eat?] MR. KIM: How about having a glass of liquor? [MEANING: I will buy liquor for you.] KWACANG: It’s okay. Don’t bother. [MEANING: I will accept your offer if you repeat it.] MR. KIM: You must be hungry. How about going out? [MEANING: I insist upon treating you.] KWACANG: Shall I do so? [MEANING: I accept.]
We have a way to make successes out of the unsuccessful.
Who we are cannot be separated from where we’re from — and when we ignore that fact, planes crash.
American children are already a year behind their Asian counterparts in the most fundamental of math skills.
Because the asian childeren have much easy way to learn number compared to American so they are a year ahead
Working really hard is what successful people do, and the genius of the culture formed in the rice paddies is that hard work gave those in the fields a way to find meaning in the midst of great uncertainty and poverty.
Success is a function of persistence and doggedness and the willingness to work hard for twenty-two minutes to make sense of something that most people would give up on after thirty seconds.
“Education lays the foundation of a large portion of the causes of mental disorder,”
The answer is that poor kids and wealthy kids would, by the end of elementary school, be doing math and reading at almost the same level.
year. You have the time to learn everything that needs to be learned — and you have less time to unlearn
success follows a predictable course.
Outliers are those who have been given opportunities — and who have had the strength and presence of mind to seize them.
We look at the young Bill Gates and marvel that our world allowed that thirteen-year-old to become a fabulously successful entrepreneur. But that’s the wrong lesson. Our world only allowed one thirteen-year-old unlimited access to a time-sharing terminal in 1968.
