• If you grow up in a home where actions don't lead to predictable consequences, you don't develop strategies to control your impulses.

    David Brooks: If you grow up in a home where actions don't lead to predictable consequences, you don't develop strategies to control your impulses.
    "Ask the Author Live: David Brooks on the Composure Class". Live chat, www.newyorker.com. January 7, 2011.