It's easy to pretend expertise when there's no data to contradict you.

You have brilliance in you, your contribution is valuable, and the art you create is precious. Only you can do, and you must.

If there's time for an emergency, why isn't there time for brilliance, generosity or learning?

Will you succeed because you are more well-rounded than others? Because you fit in better than everyone else? Bloody unlikely. We succeed when we are trusted to be the best at what we do.

Canoeing was hard and scary, and the wind could blow you across the lake if you did it wrong. After a year of not doing it right, I could talk to people and get them to sit up straight, take different kinds of chances, to breathe differently, to engage in the moment in the boat. And I changed them, and I changed me in the process.

If it scares you, it might be a good thing to try.

Making an average pitch to average people, or having an average gala for average people isn't going to scale anymore. You've got to find the people who care. Those people are worth all of your time.