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Jennette McCurdy spent a fourteen-hour flight to Sydney in a single loop of eating and vomiting, unable to keep anything down for more than a few minutes at a time. There was no moment on that flight when she wasn't eating, throwing up, or plotting how to

A hungry fox spots a vine of ripe grapes hanging just out of reach. He backs up, leaps, and misses. He tries again, jumps higher, misses again. After a third failed attempt, exhausted and humiliated, he sniffs and mutters that the grapes were probably sour anyway, then trots off. This

His legs locked around her waist, pinning her in place. "Pull down your drawers." She was eight. She hesitated, trapped, half expecting rescue to burst through the door at any second, her mother, her brother Bailey, anyone. No one came. He loosened his grip just enough to yank

Larry Gagosian once had dinner at Marc Jacobs's apartment in Paris. A few days later he called about two paintings he'd noticed on the wall. Jacobs named a price: $11 million. Gagosian made a handful of calls, closed the deal, and wired the money within three

Steve Jobs once spotted a woman in a parking lot, walked up, and asked her to dinner that Saturday. She said yes. Walking back to his car, on his way to meet with important clients, he stopped himself: if this were his last day alive, would he rather sit through

Charlie Munger has repeated the same line in interviews with Bill Gates and in talks to rooms full of MBA students: the most important decision you will ever make is who you marry. Your partner shapes your happiness, your habits, your mindset, and in time your success. Marriage is a

Lyndon Johnson won his 1948 Senate seat by eighty-seven votes, and by every honest account, most of them weren't real. Both campaigns rigged returns that year: Johnson's men in the south, his rival's in the east. The difference was patience. Johnson had already