While all individuals have the right to have their own opinions, they do not have the right to render verdicts.

Christ is the Second Man (I Cor. 15.47) in whom the new humanity is created. He is the “New Man.

Gratitude is a skill that we can never display too often. And yet for some reason, we are cheap and chary with gratitude—as if it were rare Bordeaux wine that we can serve only on special occasions.

In the Lean Startup model, we are rehabilitating learning with a concept I call validated learning. Validated learning is the process of demonstrating empirically that a team has discovered valuable truths about a startup’s present and future business prospects.

We learned lessons in war, written in blood, about sorrow, loss, and pain. We also learned about the fragility of human life and the power of the human spirit. Of course, we learned about strategy and tactics. We learned how to most effectively take the fight to our enemies. We learned how to analyze targets, gather and exploit information, find our enemy’s weaknesses, and capitalize on them.

The joy I obtained as a result of this action was not necessarily great or savage, but the suffering which ensued was staggering—so far surpassing what I had imagined that even describing it as “horrendous” would not quite cover it.

It has become more important than ever to live right here right now in every moment, instead of getting lost in thoughts about what things should be like or what might be.

By focusing on your breath, you can at least begin to get back to the hub of your mind.

The highest challenge inside organizations, including families, is to set them up and run them in a way that enables each person to inwardly sense his or her innate worth and potential for greatness.

To achieve stillness, we’ll need to focus on three domains, the timeless trinity of mind, body, soul—the head, the heart, the flesh.