Word: dapping
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...DAP: There are four main attractions, which are all related, but the power of each depends on who you are and what state of life...
...DAP: They were not looking for Nobel Prize winners. Although Graham wasn’t able to recruit very many Nobel Prize Winners, there wasn’t actually that much demand for super brainiacs. The women wanted to know the heights of the donors, if they had musical abilities, and their family health history. Brains were only one of the characteristics they valued. Although he was forced to recruit other donors because of a lack of supply, Graham was a businessman and quickly realized that having other kinds of donors was a good marketing move. The biggest attraction...
...DAP: I have heard from several new donors and children, including some whom I have since introduced to each other. The subjects of the book have all responded, except for a couple, including Michael the Nobelist’s Son. They all like it, and think it tells their stories truly. Even folks who I thought might not be so happy about it like...
...DAP: He’s an enthralling character. He made a profound improvement in American life by inventing shatterproof lenses—a genuinely huge advance. And he was motivated by essentially noble, and relatively harmless, goals. But he suffered from the problem of hyper-rationalists everywhere—the belief that the world would work perfectly if only smart people like me were allowed to control it and keep the morons in line...
...DAP: Most Harvard students come from families with expectations and this is very much a book about what it is like to grow up with expectations, particularly genetic expectations...