Have you noticed that when we die, our eulogies celebrate our lives very differently from the way society defines success?

The more we refuse to buy into our inner critics - and our external ones too - the easier it will get to have confidence in our choices, and to feel comfortable with who we are.

I'm much more creative when I've actually taken care of myself.

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.

For a hot-shot CEO taking over a troubled company, mass firings are the ultimate quick fix, the accounting equivalent of crack: cheap, easy to score, instantly gratifying, and highly addictive.

Life is shaped from the inside out.

Since fear is such a primal reaction, making the choice to move forward despite fear is an evolved decision that transcends our animal nature.