The Triple Package

Amy Chua

August 07, 2024

Clayton Christensen, author of The Innovator’s Dilemma (which Intel CEO Andy Grove said was the most important book he’d read in ten years),

August 06, 2024

It’s remarkable how common this dynamic is among immigrant groups: a minority, armed with enormous ethnocentric pride, suddenly finds itself disrespected and spurned in the United States. The result can border on resentment—and resentment, as Nietzsche taught, is one of the world’s great motivators. A particularly

August 05, 2024

IMPULSE CONTROL. As we’ll use the term, impulse control refers to the ability to resist temptation, especially the temptation to give up in the face of hardship or quit instead of persevering at a difficult task.

August 05, 2024

Yet insecurity runs deep in every one of America’s most successful groups, and these groups not only suffer from insecurity; they tend, consciously or unconsciously, to promote it.

August 05, 2024

  1. A SUPERIORITY COMPLEX. This element of the Triple Package is the easiest to define: a deeply internalized belief in your group’s specialness, exceptionality, or superiority.