Just about every error has a technical and psychological component: get good at discovering those connections

In America, people focus on the end result; they focus on the star.

A man wants to walk across the land, but the earth is covered with thorns. He has two options - one is to pave his road, to tame all of nature into compliance. The other is to make sandals. Making sandals is the internal solution...it does not base success on a submissive world or overpowering force, but on intelligent preparation and cultivated resilience.

At the very core of my relationship to learning is the idea that we should be as organic as possible. We need to cultivate a deeply refined introspective sense, and build our relationship to learning around our nuance of character.

One of the main focuses of my training sessions is to help individuals find their unique voices in the learning process. We all have our strengths, our weaknesses, our styles of learning, our personalities. Developing introspective sensitivity to these issues is critical to long-term success.

Not only do we have to be good at waiting, we have to love it. Because waiting is not waiting, it is life.

Of course the sad truth is that if we are not present to the moment, our true love could come and go and we wouldn't even notice.