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Live on and savings you can retire on, and health care that you can count on. it means building more ladders of opportunity into the middle class for anybody whos willing to work hard to climb them. those are national issues. they have an impact on everybody. the problem of stagnant wages, economic insecurity, and stalled mobility, are issues that affect all demographic groups all across the country. my administrations policies from early childhood education to job training, to minimum wages, ar...

Pays off with wages you can live on and savings you can retire on and health care that you can count on. it means building more ladders of opportunity and the middle class for anyone who is willing to work hard to climb it. those are national issues. they have an impact on everybody. the problem of stagnant wages and economic insecurity and stalled mobility are issues that affect all demographic groups across the country. my administrations policies from early childhood education to job training...

That im doing a bad job and everyone can tell and im freaking out. so he clears everyone out. he goes, hey, kid. come here. lets go sit at his monitors, you know, where he observes everything. we sit there and he reads the paper. and i sit there next to him. i just dont say anything. he doesnt say anything to me. and we sit there for about 20 minutes. the first ten minutes im still freaking out and nervous. the last ten minutes, i just kind of zoned out. and forgot about everything. >> then it w...

>> he has good resources, though. >> no, they only give me wrong information. >> how did you do at spelling bees? >> this is a source of my insecurity. one of my saddest memories was my first and last spelling bee. i spelled bamboo, forgot an "o." i was in the third grade and i will never forget that. i have never forgotten that. >> booze has two "os." >> i was terrible at spelling bees. people are bored of this conversation. so we have new details for you this morning on this big-time arrest ...

All these geniuses down. >> his insecurity about acting for marten scorsese not only helped him in the end, but earned hill his second oscar nomination. >> jonah hill in "the wolf of wall street." >> im so proud of you. you turned 30, two oscar nominations. i cant imagine what your speed dial is like. brad, leo, marty. >> mom. >> everybody. how was it this time around when you got the call again that you were nominated for best supporting actor? >> my phone rang at like 5:30, and it was my publi...

92 million and 50 million, every person, every light, all those suffering, and i argue, dana, needlessly, we can do better. >> certainly we can do better. in any system, in a capitalist system, you are going to have people who dont make as much as others, depending on work. the thing that bothered me is the child who said hes anguished and worries every day how he will provide for his own family, which is 20 years down the road. the financial insecurity people are feeling is permeating all the w...

Kind of thing or very much a family thing where were special. >> absolutely. and -- or the nigerians here are disproportionately to very successful groups in nigeria with a proud royal heritage. whats interesting the second quality is, insecurity, which seems like the opposite of a sense of exceptionality and insecurity we mean, you know, a feeling you havent quite done enough, not quite good enough, and the third is, impulse control. and the crux -- >> you know a lot about psychology, its based...

Cultural traits, god knows china had these cultural traits for hundreds of years and until 30 years ago, china had no growth, was a totally dysfunctional country. >> thats a great question. i mean thats not how were using culture in this kind of essentialist way. you know, confusionism in a way. obviously culture in this country, you have the heritage and then you come to america and its suddenly this mish mash, interacting with american society. one of the driving forces of the triple package i...

This combination of a sense of insecurity with a sense of exceptionality that often generates this feeling of, you know, a drive, like i need to prove myself. >> do you think that theres some lesson people can learn? can you learn these cultural traits? >> >> undoubtedly. we show in the book there are many individuals, not from these groups that we discuss in detail, who also have all three of these traits. president obama is one. justice sonia sotomayorp. these are individuals who didnt come fr...

>> thats a great question. i mean thats not how were using culture in this kind of essentialist way. you know, confusionism in a way. obviously culture in this country, you have the heritage and then you come to america and its suddenly this mishmash, interacting with american society. one of the driving forces of the triple package is insecurity. often the insecurity of being an outsider. you know, that feeling of being an outsider and also being insecure financially, you know, youre the one wi...