It’s not the fear of writing that blocks people, it’s fear of not writing well; something quite different.

People tell me this is obvious. But it's ok to be obvious. Knowing and doing are different. Many people know many obvious things they completely fail to do, despite their knowledge.

There is a big difference between wanting to say you wrote a book, and actually writing one. Many people think they want to write, even though they find crafting sentences and paragraphs unpleasant. They hope there is a way to write without writing. I can tell you with certainty there isn’t one.

It’s not the fear of writing that blocks people, it’s fear of not writing well; something quite different.

Anyone can criticize or accept praise, but initiating a positive exchange is a hallmark of a difference maker.

Big thoughts are fun to romanticize, but it's many small insights coming together that bring big ideas into the world.

All great tasks test our motivation. It's easy to court ideas over beers and change the world with napkin sketches, but like most things taken home from bars, new challenges arise the next day. It's in the morning light when work begins, and grand ideas (or barroom conquests) lose their luster. To do interesting things requires work and it's no surprise we abandon demanding passions for simpler, easier, more predictable things.