children may need challenges and high-risk conditions in order to develop the self-generated immunity to trauma that characterizes survivors. To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist.

Leaders are people we as followers want to regard with awe as the fullest flowering of our own possibilities.

To hear how special and wonderful we are is endlessly enthralling.

If every day is an awakening, you will never grow old. You will just keep growing.

If menopause is the silent passage, 'male menopause' is the unspeakable passage. It is fraught with secrecy, shame, and denial. It is much more fundamental than the ending of the fertile period of a woman's life, because it strikes at the core of what it is to be a man.

Transformation also means looking for ways to stop pushing yourself so hard professionally or inviting so much stress.

Whether one has natural talent or not, any learning period requires the willingness to suffer uncertainty and embarrassment.