Most analysts are SO SMART and have amazing ideas, but they can't convey their genius ideas to others.
There's no such thing as a passive audience.
Once we know something, we find it hard to imagine what it was like not to know it.
Mental simulation is not as good as actually doing something. But it's the next best thing. And the right kind of a story is a simulation.
Stories are flight simulators for our brains.
Success emerges from the quality of the decisions we make and the quantity of luck we receive. We can't control luck. But we can control the way we make choices.