Eric Gamble

Eric Gamble writes about the distance between knowing and doing — and how the people who close it are made, not born.

His work began with the individual. Internalized Principles of the Self-Made argues that self-made success is not luck,

charisma, or law-of-attraction wishful thinking, but a set of principles internalized until knowing becomes doing — because

to know and not do is not yet to know. It is a grounded, psychological account of how a person actually changes.

That same lens widens across his books to the systems we all live inside: organizations that know far better than they do, a

federal government whose feedback loops have gone slack, universities that treat accountability as a once-a-decade fire

drill, and the real, compounding price of an education. Good people, bad wiring. Whether the machine is a person or an

institution, he names exactly how it fails — and then works out, honestly and trade-offs included, what it would take to

repair it.

Eric Gamble holds a PhD and an MBA, and led publicly traded technology companies and two Silicon Valley startups before

turning to writing and the classroom. He is most recently and most consequentially a grandfather.

To know and not do is not yet to know.