Without people pushing against your quest to do something worth talking about, it's unlikely to be worth the journey. Persist.

I believe that uncertainty is really my spirit's way of whispering, I'm in flux. I can't decide for you. Something is off-balance here.

The challenge with being an initiator of projects is that you are never, ever done.

Initiating is really and truly difficult, and that's what leaders do. They see something others are ignoring and they jump on it.

If you need to conceal your true nature to get in the door, understand that you'll probably have to conceal your true nature to keep that job.

Or, if I take that same auditorium and I make it much bigger and put more space between seats, it'll be quieter because it's much harder when you're not in physical contact with people to spread a virus from person-to-person, right? There are all sorts of patterns that we see in epidemiology that help us understand why something spreads.

Learn. Ceaselessly. Learn to code, to write persuasively, to understand new technologies, to bring out the best in your team, to find underused resources and to spot patterns.