The simple secret of the Ordeal is this: Heroes must die so that they can be reborn. The dramatic movement that audiences enjoy more than any other is death and rebirth.

Jevons Paradox: consumption of a resource may increase as a response to greater efficiency in its use.

What’s wrong is that they have no idea how their behavior is coming across to the people who matter—their bosses, colleagues, subordinates, customers, and clients.

A telos crisis is defined by the fact that people in it don’t know what their purpose is. When this happens, they become fragile.

I like to think of Good to Great as providing the core ideas for getting a flywheel turning… while Built to Last outlines the core ideas for keeping a flywheel accelerating long into the future.

Financial success is not a hard science. It’s a soft skill, where how you behave is more important than what you know.

That’s ‘leading up the chain of command,' I explained. The field manager came around to this realization. He accepted that he needed to do better in pushing situational awareness, information, and communication up the chain.

The different use of a pronoun may be the means through which a new consciousness of His presence will come to you.

There are four: delaying of gratification, acceptance of responsibility, dedication to truth, and balancing.

Emphasize the importance of creating unique value: Thiel argues that to build a successful business, entrepreneurs should focus on creating something new, rather than competing in crowded markets. He encourages entrepreneurs to strive for monopoly-like dominance by offering a unique value proposition that differentiates their company from the competition.