LOVE YOURSELF AS YOU WOULD OTHERS

Many traumatized individuals are too hypervigilant to enjoy the ordinary pleasures that life has to offer, while others are too numb to absorb new experiences—or to be alert to signs of real danger.

How VCs get paid: 1) Management fee – 2% up to 3%. This is used to pay bills, salaries, etc. 2) Carried interest. 20% up to 30% of profits generated.

When it comes to raising, do, or do not. There is no try.

Attention is the most important currency anyone can give a business.

The suffering that was not consciously felt as a child can be avoided by delegating it to one’s own children.

9. The book discusses the evolution of human societies from bands to tribes, chiefdoms, and states.

The use of a distracting service does not, by itself, reduce your brain’s ability to focus.

As we become healthier and more adult, we no longer seek sex for joy but share sex because of joy. When there is happiness in our inner world, we give up the frantic search for happiness in sex.

A paradox of innovation and mastery is that breakthroughs often occur when you start down a road, but wander off for a ways and pretend as if you have just begun