Giving adds value to others' lives. Look for opportunities to provide knowledge, connections, or support without expecting anything in return. Generosity and care create bonds.

Most of us have grown up seeing the world as a place of limitation rather than as a place of inexhaustible treasures. A world of competition rather than one of co-creation.

The mythological approach to story boils down to using metaphors or comparisons to get across your feelings about life.

It’s only by facing our finitude that we can step into a truly authentic relationship with life.

In historical sciences, one can provide a posteriori explanations (e.g., why an asteroid impact on Earth 66 million years ago may have driven dinosaurs but not many other species to extinction), but a priori predictions are more difficult.

When your team is growing swiftly, hiring becomes easily the top one or two most important skills. If you need to build out a large team and you don’t have a strong bench of managers, the problem quickly becomes intractable. You can’t create great outcomes without consistently attracting talented people.

Failure is part of success, an integral part. Everybody gets knocked down… it's what you do after that matters.

Activating emotion is the key to transmission. Physiological arousal or activation drives people to talk and share.

The team-first approach provides opportunities for many kinds of people to thrive in an organization. Instead of needing a thick skin or resilience in order to survive in an organization that atomizes individuals, people in a team-first organization have the space and support to develop their skills and practices within the context of a team.

To increase the capacity of the plant is to increase the capacity of only the bottlenecks.