A happy brain is a supple and flexible brain, he believes; depression, anxiety, obsession, and the cravings of addiction are how it feels to have a brain that has become excessively rigid or fixed in its pathways and linkages.

By giving your time and expertise and sharing them freely, the pie gets bigger for everyone.

One exercise I do every January is to map out where I hope my team will be by the end of the year. I create a future org chart, analyze gaps in skills, strengths, or experiences, and make a list of open roles to hire for

The courage that’s needed the most isn’t the kind that drives you to prevail over others, but the kind that allows you to be true to your truest self, no matter what other people want you to be.

Eurasia’s considerable initial advantage thereby was translated into a huge lead as of A.D. 1492—for reasons of Eurasia’s distinctive geography rather than of distinctive human intellect.

Therefore, basketball is a game of adjustments—just like business. Adjustments are not unusual, they are usual.

Thoughts with the word ‘should’ in them make me small, dull and lonely.

Where returns are concerned, time is your friend. But where costs are concerned, time is your enemy.

People who get angry at others for setting boundaries have a character problem. Self-centered, they think the world exists for them and their comfort.

In short, literacy made the Spaniards heirs to a huge body of knowledge about human behavior and history. By contrast, not only did Atahuallpa have no conception of the Spaniards themselves, and no personal experience of any other invaders from overseas, but he also had not even heard (or read) of similar threats to anyone else, anywhere else, anytime previously in history.