The average smartphone user checks his or her device every six and a half minutes.

Having a partner definitely allows you to take more risks.

Money and power by themselves are a two-legged stool. You can balance on them for a while, but eventually you're going to topple over.

Clearly drive, IQ, and hard work are incredibly important. But ultimately what matters most is resilience--the ability to quickly rebound from failures, indeed to see failure as a stepping stone to success.

Our current obsession with creativity is the result of our continued striving for immortality in an era when most people no longer believe in an afterlife.

If we don't know ourselves, our essence, where our true power comes from, we will believe our power comes from collecting victories, trophies, money, or recognition. And these are all fine, but it's not ultimately what life is about. When we think it is, we really waste our greatest possibilities.

I failed, many times in my life. One failure that I always remember was when my second book was rejected by 36 publishers. Many years later, I watched HuffPost come alive