The superheroes you have in your mind (idols, icons, titans, billionaires, etc.) are nearly all walking flaws who’ve maximized 1 or 2 strengths.

Feedback is very useful for telling us “where we are.” Without feedback, I couldn’t work with my clients. I wouldn’t know what everyone thinks my client needs to change.

We are not defending a national championship. The word ‘defending’ implies that we will be back on our heels protecting something. No way, guys. We cannot win another national championship on our reputation. We have to go out and earn everything we get. We are not defending anything. We are pursuing a national championship. Pursuing!

The lesson, so simple yet so difficult, is that life can be savored even though it contains hardship, disappointment, loss, and even brutality. The choice to see its beauty is available to us at every moment.

Mushrooms are bringing us a message from nature.

Working hard for something we do not care about is called stress, working hard for something we love is called passion.

People tend to assess the relative importance of issues by the ease with which they are retrieved from memory—and this is largely determined by the extent of coverage in the media.

Hospitality opens the door to uncommon community.

The iPhone’s most irreplaceable components are indeed designed in California and assembled in China. But they can only be made in Taiwan.

Our minds are filled more with reasons of why we can’t than thoughts of what we want to create.