Self-mastery calls for thorough familiarity with one's mental and emotional strengths. And it calls for sustaining a commitment to personal growth - the understanding of what makes you tick as an individual - as well as personal development.

The fact is, the difference between peak performers and everybody else are much smaller than everybody else thinks.

Workaholics are addicted to activity; super achievers are committed to results.

Mission starts with determining what you really care about and want to accomplish and committing yourself to it. You can always develop expertise. First, discover your preference.

People who have committed to a service/advocacy role will tell you that some of the sublimest pleasure they have ever experienced comes in the context of that work. You get way more than you give.

It takes no genius to observe that a one-man band never gets very big

I've discovered that numerous peak performers use the skill of mental rehearsal of visualization. They mentally run through important events before they happen.