David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants
these possibilities is true, you just might. ...
3. David Boies grew up in farming country in rural Illinois. He was the eldest of five. His parents were public school teachers. ...
Many of his schoolmates quit school to work on the farm the first chance they got. Boies read comic books, which were easy to fo ...
enough for spell-check to find the correct spelling,” Boies says. “I can’t tell you how many times I get the little message that ...
playing a lot of bridge on the side. “It was a great life. I could have gone on like that for a while. But after our first child ...
Boies is someone for whom reading is a struggle. It seems crazy that he would even have considered the law. But let’s not forget ...
a number of core courses for graduation, all of which involved heavy reading requirements. In those years, however, one could ap ...
functional.” Plus, he was a good listener. “Listening,” he says, “is something I’ve been doing essentially all my life. I learne ...
students, as they made notes and doodled and faded in and out, missed things. Their attention was compromised. Boies didn’t have ...
to say. Sometimes in court he stumbles when he has to read something and comes across a word that he cannot process in time. So ...
comment or revealing admission from testimony an hour or a day or a week before that he would not have heard, registered, and re ...
conceivable analysis of the issue at hand. Time and again, they get bogged down in excessive detail. Boies doesn’t. One of his m ...
times when you need to slow down, and you don’t want to show the examiner by your change of pace that this is something that you ...
from pauses. He’d slow down when he was trying to think of how to phrase something. He was somebody who as you probed him and li ...
4. Boies has a particular skill that helps to explain why he is so good at what he does. He’s a superb listener. But think about ...
and on and on, in a virtuous circle. That’s “capitalization learning”: we get good at something by building on the strengths tha ...
Most of the learning that we do is capitalization learning. It is easy and obvious. If you have a beautiful voice and perfect pi ...
with a serious disability cannot master all those steps. But those who can are better off than they would have been otherwise, b ...
accomplishing nothing. Through seventh, eighth, ninth, and tenth grade, I was getting mostly Fs, with an occasional D and maybe ...
By the time he hit high school, he’d developed a better strategy. “I challenged all my grades,” he went on, “which meant that li ...
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