It’s crucial to keep in mind that no matter how nonsensical and frustrating our child’s feelings may seem to us, they are real and important to our child.

A man without a smiling face must not open a shop.’ Your smile is a messenger of your good will.

WHY FIRST PRODUCTS AREN’T MEANT TO BE PERFECT: Before new products can be sold successfully to the mass market, they have to be sold to early adopters. Early adopters use their imagination to fill in what a product is missing. The lesson of the MVP is that any additional work beyond what was required to start learning is waste, no matter how important it might have seemed at the time.

To me, working on maximizing our mental health is no different to working on our physical health.

Trauma robs you of the feeling that you are in charge of yourself.

It’s only in silence that people can truly hear themselves.

There's been a chain of people brutally struggling and striving forwards throughout history, and you're comfortable breaking that chain?

Your intuition will always lead you to where you need to go and what you should do at any moment in time. It’s like a real-time inner GPS.

The basic elements of this story are repeated in the lives of all of the great M asters in history: a yo uthful passion or predilection, a chance encounter that allows them to discover how to apply it, an appre nticeship in which they come alive with ener gy and focus.

Focus on your own journey and ignore those who want you to lead a different life.