You cannot ignore or completely escape the deeply ingrained short-term reward system within you. But you can become aware of what really motivates you and then tweak your incentives to sustain your long-term pursuits.

Overcome the stigma of self-marketing.

We will ultimately live in a perpetual data-driven talent edition. Everything you create will be measured and tracked by others through comments, share, and likes. Your work will come up on the radar of potential employers and clients, and the data will tell them if you are worth talking to or hiring.

The vision of extraordinary achievement is,by definition, a few steps beyond consensus and conventional logic

Most ideas are born and lost in isolation.

Rather than Surrender to Bureaucracy, take it upon yourself to break it

The fact that time is ticking should motivate you to take action on your ideas.