--- title: Five Best: What Happens When We Pull Out of a Trade Deal description: What happens when the U.S. pulls out of a major trade deal, why you shouldn't read about successful people and more. canonical: https://time.com/4700873/this-is-what-happens-when-we-pull-out-of-a-major-trade-deal/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-03-14T16:00:23.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:59:00.430Z article:section: Ideas og:title: This Is What Happens When We Pull Out of a Major Trade Deal og:description: And four more of today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/4700873/this-is-what-happens-when-we-pull-out-of-a-major-trade-deal/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: This Is What Happens When We Pull Out of a Major Trade Deal twitter:description: And four more of today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # This Is What Happens When We Pull Out of a Major Trade Deal by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Mar 14, 2017 4:00 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Mar 14, 2017 4:00 PM UTC **1\.** [**Here’s what happens when the U.S. pulls out of a major trade deal.**](http://www.politico.com/agenda/story/2017/03/world-prepares-to-move-on-without-us-on-trade-000361) By Adam Behsudi in _Politico_ **2\.** [**Stop reading lists of things successful people do.**](https://hbr.org/2017/03/stop-reading-lists-of-things-successful-people-do) By Emre Soyer and Robin M. Hogarth in _Harvard Business Review_ **3\.** [**Abnormal is the new normal in mental health.**](https://www.sciencenews.org/article/long-lasting-mental-health-isnt-normal) By Bruce Bower in _Science News_ **4\.** [**No, you can’t master anything with 10,000 hours of practice.**](http://www.businessinsider.com/the-10000-hour-rule-is-wrong-and-perpetuates-a-cruel-myth-2017-3) By David Z. Hambrick, Fernanda Ferreira, and John M. Henderson in _Business Insider_ **5\.** [**To help kids succeed in college, make high school harder.**](http://hechingerreport.org/placing-students-difficult-high-school-classes-may-increase-college-enrollment/) By Sarah Butrymowicz in the _Hechinger Report_  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4700873/this-is-what-happens-when-we-pull-out-of-a-major-trade-deal/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4700873/this-is-what-happens-when-we-pull-out-of-a-major-trade-deal/"},"headline":"This Is What Happens When We Pull Out of a Major Trade Deal","datePublished":"2017-03-14T16:00:23.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:59:00.430Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4700873/this-is-what-happens-when-we-pull-out-of-a-major-trade-deal/","keywords":["Five Best Ideas","Mental Health","Innovation","College","High School","trade","successful people"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/five-best-ideas/","name":"Five Best Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4700873/this-is-what-happens-when-we-pull-out-of-a-major-trade-deal/","name":"This Is What Happens When We Pull Out of a Major Trade Deal"}}]}] ```