Try honestly to see things from the other person’s point of view.

Success is not the result of strong willpower and the ability to overcome resistance, but rather the result of smart working environments that avoid resistance in the first place.

The best thing about this whole experience is that the agreement helped me be calm and let them learn. They chose; they got the consequence. I was loving, I was supportive, but I didn’t get in the way.

To lead effectively, we’re responsible for respecting and leveraging the different views and staying curious about how they can often conflict… while we may have different perspectives and may not share the same level of knowledge about every detail of the organization, we must have a shared reality of the current state of the organization.

Because people want to feel proud of what they are involved with and to believe that they and their colleagues will be successful, one of a leader’s most important tasks is to project confidence.

The lesson, so simple yet so difficult, is that life can be savored even though it contains hardship, disappointment, loss, and even brutality. The choice to see its beauty is available to us at every moment.

Takeaway #3 – Quickly protect your idea by filing for a Provisional Patent Application over a full patent

The premature zoom is a real problem because it leads to data which seems like validation, but is actually worthless. In other words, it’s a big source of false positives.

Conduct with serious gravitas, you get a reputation for excellent, you get relevant auctoritas given to you.

The person I find when I have been alone for a while—and have had a chance to reflect, process, and grow from my experience—is more likely to be at a higher level of maturity.