Every meeting either succeeds or fails. You've lost the meeting when you leave with a compliment or a stalling tactic.

Our failures to update from interacting with reality spring primarily from three things: not having the right perspective or vantage point, ego-induced denial, and distance from the consequences of our decisions.

The best networks have strong ties, weak ties, and dormant ties

The Christian religion is not a legal system that, being imposed by violence, may transform men’s lives. Christianity is a new and higher conception of life.

If you are building the wrong thing, optimizing the product or its marketing will not yield significant results. A startup has to measure progress against a high bar: evidence that a sustainable business can be built around its products or services.

The ability to generate new ideas has more to do with breaking with old habits of thinking than with coming up with as many ideas as possible.

Confidence is the purity of action produced by a mind free of doubt. That’s how one of our experts defines it. And that’s what we’d just seen on the court, we thought in triumph.

When you encounter problems, your objective is to specifically identify the root causes of those problems—the specific people or designs that caused them—and to see if these people or designs have a pattern of causing problems.

Knowing the difference between top-down and bottom-up regulation is central for understanding and treating traumatic stress.

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.