Takeaway #1 Communicating Compassionately & Clearly

But God loves things by becoming them. God loves things by uniting with them, not by excluding them.

Work From Your Calendar, Not a To Do List

Most of what you (your System 2) think and do originates in your System 1, but System 2 takes over when things get difficult, and it normally has the last word.

We learned that leadership requires belief in the mission and unyielding perseverance to achieve victory, particularly when doubters question whether victory is even possible.

There is something about human nature that makes us the implacable enemies of chaos. Whenever we encounter chaos, we roll up our sleeves and go right to work to replace it with order. But it does not follow from this that we’d be happier if there were no more chaos. On the contrary, we’d be bored to tears.

The nice thing about a wristband is that it lives on... But the wristband creates more behavioral residue than the cross-country ride ever could.

Think about whether the person you’re disagreeing with is more or less believable than you. If you are less believable, you are more of a student and should be more open-minded, primarily asking questions in order to understand the logic of the person who probably knows more.

The gorilla study illustrates two important facts about our minds: we can be blind to the obvious, and we are also blind to our blindness.

The purpose of a company is to bring a product vision to life. All the other components are in service to the product.