As leaders, we're giving out grades in every encounter we have with people. We can choose to give out grades as an expectation to live up to, and then we can reassess them according to performance. Or we can offer grades as a possibility to live into. The second approach is much more powerful.

My job is to awaken possibility in other people.

Live the rest of your life in possibility

The major difference between the 'best' and the 'average' is that the 'best' get as much pleasure from practice as performance.

I have a definition of success.

Imagine Martin Luther King saying, 'I have a dream ... But I don't know if the others will buy it.'

Life is revealed as a place to contribute and we as contributors. Not because we have done a measurable amount of good, but because that is the story we tell.