Stop teaching students that they are the best and the brightest.

What do I have to do to earn and deserve the key relationships that are going to get me where I want to go?

Don't get stampeded by what people around you value. The task is to figure out what YOU value - and value highly enough to throw yourself into with unqualified passion.

Stop teaching students that they are the best and the brightest.

Truly visionary and successful companies have discovered that there is no conflict between the pursuit of profit and having a pursuit beyond profit.

What is important is what inspires persistence and determination- in other words what you care about.

Whether or not your values are operational is crucially determined by whether or not there are consequences for noncompliance.