Only do the thing we are best at doing and enjoy most.

To get useful new ideas, we must go beyond our immediate circle and make contact with distant parts of the social system.

Use all the willpower at your disposal to make yourself happy. Construct the right stories about yourself - and believe them!

There is no rush. If we think intelligently about what we can achieve with our time, we can be relaxed, even lazy. In fact, being lazy - having plenty of time to think - may actually be a precondition for achieving a great deal.

It is not shortage of time that should worry us, but the tendency for the majority of time to be spent in low-quality ways.

The few things that work fantastically well should be identified, cultivated, nurtured, and multiplied.

We tend to think of innovation as difficult, but with the creative use of The 80/20 Principle innovation can be both easy and fun!