The road to success is paved with mistakes well handled.

The Go-Giver teaches us that real success comes from understanding the power of giving and magnetizing others with your generosity

What we learn from the past is to maximize the quality of our future memories, not necessarily of our future experience.pLeaders Eat Las

When we converse, we become aware. Aware of the other person, his rights, his privileges, his feeling, and if we converse long enough, his total personality.

Use a summary to trigger a that’s right. The building blocks of a good summary are a label combined with paraphrasing. Identify, rearticulate, and emotionally affirm "the world according to . . ."

1. Be proactive2. Begin with the end in mind3. Put first things first4. Think win/win5. Seek first to understand then be understood6. Synergize7. Sharpen the saw

We all slip up, like I still do, but if we do feeling-with rather than trying to push the feeling away enough, the child will know what they need and be able to ask for it.

Polarization without shading or the possibility of change would quickly become boring, just two people shouting at each other. The fun is in seeing a tiny seed of the opposite quality coming to life in a polarized character or situation.

The purpose of the margin of safety is to render the forecast unnecessary." - Benjamin Graham

You have reached the New Status Quo when what you changed becomes what you do. An interesting characteristic of human emotion is that the more painful the Chaos, the greater the perceived value of the New Status Quo—if you can get there.