Want to increase innovation? Lower the cost of failure.

Education is what people do to you. Learning is what you do to yourself. Focus on being connected, always learning, fully aware and super present.

For some reason, I grew up generally believing that Japan and Korea were quite friendly. I do know that there is some bad history and the extremists on both sides are unreasonable.

Most creative work is a process of people passing ideas and inspirations from the past into the future and adding their own creativity along the way.

The idea of trying to fight against extremism was written off as naive.

Question authority; think for yourself. Talk to people, do things unrelated to school - to come up with your own framework for living. The world is too complex and people are too different to be overly prescriptive about the details.

When there is a huge force pressing down on freedoms, sub-cultures with more creativity and power are likely to form.