The resistance is the voice in your head telling you to use bullets in your PowerPoint slides...It’s the voice that tells you to leave controversial ideas out of the paper you’re writing, because the teacher won’t like them. The resistance pushes relentlessly for you to fit in.

You can listen to what people say, sure. But you will be far more effective if you listen to what people do.

The resistance is not something to be avoided, it's something to seek out.

If you can raise money, you're never going to have trouble getting a job.

You gain converts by winning at something the existing provider didn't think was so important.

Gifts are not favors. If you expect something in return, it's not a gift.

Here's the truth you have to wrestle with: the reason that art (writing, engaging, leading, all of it) is valuable is precisely why I can't tell you how to do it. If there were a map, there'd be no art, because art is the act of navigating without a map. Don't you hate that? I love that there's no map.