The more we choose to accept responsibility for our lives, the more power we will exercise over our lives. Accepting responsibility for our problems is thus the first step to solving them.

So to grow at the people development level, you need to make investing in leaders a priority, and take intentional steps every day to help them grow. Do that consistently, for long enough, and you may begin to reap the rewards of the next level.

The collaborative method is when you and your child put your heads together to solve a problem so you’re more of a counsellor than a dictator.

Every child has a legitimate need to be noticed, understood, taken seriously, and respected by his mother.

In time, I realized that the satisfaction of success doesn’t come from achieving your goals, but from struggling well.

Traumatized people chronically feel unsafe inside their bodies: The past is alive in the form of gnawing interior discomfort.

When you are doing your best work and are in a total state of flow... you are having no thoughts in the moment.

See, you can do something today that will outlive your life.

Stories have healing power, that they can help us deal with difficult emotional situations by giving us examples of human behavior, perhaps similar in some way to the struggles we are going through at some stage of life, and which might inspire us to try a different strategy for living.

System 1 is lazy, operates automatically and quickly. It generates impressions and feelings without effort, feeding the beliefs and choices of System 2.