Your true self has the same needs as a flourishing, healthy child: to grow , be known, and express itself. Abov e all, your true self keeps pushing for your expansion, as if your self-actualization were the most important thing on earth.

Exploratory analyses are a fun and exciting part of the research process. For those who are divergent thinkers, this is often the stage where new ideas, new hypotheses, and new research projects are generated and proposed.

In order to have the best life possible, you have to: 1) know what the best decisions are and 2) have the courage to make them.

Helping a child deal more adaptively with frustration is everyone’s job.

When you spend all your time firefighting, there’s little time or energy left for planning. When all you do is react, there’s not enough time to do the hard mental work of figuring out whether you can accept new work.

The truly gifted negotiator, then, is one whose initial position is exaggerated enough to allow for a series of concessions that will yield a desirable final offer from the opponent, yet is not so outlandish as to be seen as illegitimate from the start.

Markets change all the time and our job is to change with them.

The easier a behavior is to do, the more likely the behavior will become habit.

When you reach an agreement, it’s a good sign you’ve arrived at truth, which is why getting to that point is such a great achievement.

To make this work you must choose a career or a craft that excites you in some deep way. You are creating no dividing line between work and pleasure. Your pleasure comes in mastering the process itself, and in the mental immersion it requires.