If you are worried about what others might think and about how your position in the group might be jeopardized, then you will never really create anything.

Be brutal with the past, especially your own, and have no respect for the philosophies that are foisted on you from outside.

If we experience any failures or setbacks, we do not forget them because they offend our self-esteem. Instead we reflect on them deeply, trying to figure out what went wrong and discern whether there are any patterns to our mistakes.

Strike the shepherd and the sheep will scatter

Though men determine, the gods doo dispose: and oft times many things fall out betweene the cup and the lip.

You are facing death and danger and competition, but at any moment, you can decide to have a fearless mindset.

I have examples of people who find their way back later on in life, in their 30's, 40's, it can happen in your 50's, I'm sure it can. It's not really a science. It's maybe more of an art.