David and Goliath: underdogs, misfits, and the art of battling giants

Introduction : Goliath: "Am I a dog that you should come to me with sticks?"

Part 1. The advantages of disadvantages (and the disadvantages of advantages) : Vivek Ranadivé: "It was really random. I mean, my father had never played basketball before"

Teresa DeBrito: "My largest class was twenty-nine kids. Oh, it was fun"

Caroline Sacks: "If I'd gone to the University of Maryland, I'd still be in science"

Part 2. The theory of desirable difficulty : David Boies: You wouldn't wish dyslexia on your child. Or would you?

Emil "Jay" Freireich: "How Jay did it, I don't know"

Wyatt Walker: "De rabbit is de slickest o' all de animals de Lawd ever made"

Part 3. The limits of power : Rosemary Lawlor: "I wasn't born that way. This was forced upon me"

Wilma Derksen: "We have all done something dreadful in our lives, or have felt the urge to"

André Trocmé: "We feel obliged to tell you that there are among us a certain number of Jews."