What’s at the heart of fierce conversations is connection, at a deep level, with those who are important to our success and happiness.

We’re here to remind ourselves of values that unite us and commitments that keep us heading in the right direction. We’re here to choose again what we chose before.

The Law of Receptivity (Chapter 12) The key to effective giving is to stay open to receiving.

The decision to pivot requires a clear-eyed and objective mindset.

Poor financial management is like gambling; the house eventually wins.

Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.

In my world, you take possession of your life, exercising agency. But in the Christian one, you are not even the owner of yourself. Your talents merely flow through you; you give yourself to the one who made you.

Favour deep modules over shallow onesDeep modules are those that provide simple interfaces to complex functionality, while shallow ones are those that have a complicated interface without hiding much complexity. Shallow modules add complexity to a system because of the cost of learning and using their interfaces, but without providing a compensating benefit by hiding complicated implementation details.

Lesson 2: Use referrals to get your foot in the door with good manufacturers.

Recognize that while everyone has the right and responsibility to try to make sense of important things, they must do so with humility and radical open-mindedness.