The goal of storytelling should be to make stories as ubiquitous as music.

Of the great entrepreneurs of this era, people will have forgotten Steve Jobs.

It's very hard to find someone who's successful and dislikes what they do.

If you don't contradict yourself on a regular basis, then you're not thinking.

Arousal leaves us mind-blind.

being able to act intelligently and instinctively in the moment is possible only after a long and rigorous of education and experience

The conventional wisdom is often wrong. Crime didn't keep soaring in the 1990s, money alone doesn't win elections, and - surprise - drinking eight glasses of water a day has never actually been shown to do a thing for your health. Conventional wisdom is often shoddily formed and devilishly difficult to see through, but it can be done.