Only create associations with positive affinities. Make this a rule of life and you will benefit more than from all the therapy in the world.

Creative Endeavors are by their nature uncertain.

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

You could have a lot of money at your fingertips, the finest education and intellectual knowledge, but if you are governed by fear none of that will matter. You will remain tied to dead ideas and stale strategies. You will not be able to adapt. You will lose what you have.

The information walls are completely crumbling.

Actually, your past successes are your biggest obstacle: every battle, every war, is different, and you cannot assume that what worked before will work today.

It is in fact the height of selfishness to merely consume what others create and to retreat into a shell of limited goals and immediate pleasures.