Happiness can be tasted alone. But permanent joy comes out of an enmeshed and embedded life. Happiness happens when a personal desire is fulfilled. Permanent moral joy seems to emerge when desire is turned outward for others.

Persistence and resilience seem to require not overly obsessing about what others think and say while possessing enough ego strength to keep problems and criticism from throwing you off course.

TSMC knows it is important to use everyone’s innovation, ours, that of the equipment makers, of our customers, and of the IP providers. That’s the power of the Grand Alliance.

Lesson 2: Use referrals to get your foot in the door with good manufacturers.

Takeaway #6: The Ripple Effect

Set an example: Take personal responsibility and set an example of the behavior you expect of others.

This system of self-analysis, self-education, continued year after year, did more for me than any other one thing I have ever attempted.

Realize today’s best will not meet tomorrow’s challenges.

It filled me with awe that this encounter with my own helplessness was the key that once more opened the door to joy.

Self turned to God is the glory of allowing the Creator to reveal Himself in us. Self turned away from God is the very darkness and fire of hell.