Everything else being equal, you’ll do better with the smaller companies.

I have learned from both my own successes and failures and those of many others that it’s the boring stuff that matters the most. Startup success can be engineered by following the right process, which means it can be learned, which means it can be taught.

Letting go of outcome when the pursuit is meaningful. A growth mindset allows people to value what they’re doing regardless of the outcome. “Maybe they haven’t found the cure for cancer, but the search was deeply meaningful.”

One way to think about what's happening under the influence of a psychedelic is that your ego sees itself for what it is—just one character in the drama, not the only character, not even the main character, just a minor character who doesn't even have to be there all the time.

It’s not about you. It’s not about the drilling superintendent. It’s about the mission and how best to accomplish it.

Humanity can no more go backward in its development than the individual man. Men have outlived the social, family, and state conceptions of life. Now they must go forward and assimilate the next and higher conception of life, which is what is now taking place.

By listening intensely, a negotiator demonstrates empathy and shows a sincere desire to better understand what the other side is experiencing.

True happiness occurs only when you find the problems you enjoy having and enjoy solving.

Passion is form over function. Purpose is function, function, function.

Thus, the hunter-gatherers of Tell Abu Hureyra were not wasting time and endangering themselves by collecting wild plants indiscriminately. Instead, they evidently knew the local wild plants as intimately as do modern New Guineans, and they used that knowledge to select and bring home only the most useful available seed plants.