If you trade your authenticity for safety, you may experience the following: anxiety, depression, eating disorders, addiction, rage, blame, resentment, and inexplicable grief.

Love is a value that is actualized through loving actions. Proactive people subordinate feelings to values.

True productivity should be measured by the value and impact of one's work, not by the sheer volume of tasks completed.

My core point is that happiness is good, but joy is better. Just as the second mountain is a fuller and richer phase of life after the first mountain, joy is a fuller and richer state beyond happiness.

People like to help entrepreneurs. But they also hate wasting their time. An opening like this tells them that you know what you need and that they'll be able to make a real difference.

Quality of life depends on what happens in the space between stimulus and response.

Learn to enjoy the present moment from your inner child.

The most distinctive economic feature of chiefdoms was their shift from reliance solely on the reciprocal exchanges characteristic of bands and tribes, by which A gives B a gift while expecting that B at some unspecified future time will give a gift of comparable value to A.

Anytime we think the problem is 'out there,' that thought is the problem. We disempower ourselves.

The Power of Non-Thinking in Peak Performance.