What I learned: Shun nonbelievers. Ignore critics. Do your best for people who want to dance with you.

Surprise and delight and connection are remarkable.

Everyone has a comfort zone. Worth considering: How hard (and how often) are you willing to work to get out of it? You can turn that into a habit if you choose.

The way the world works now, the way the rules of engagement operate, you can't claim to make sense out of the exterior without booking voyages into the interior. Think about it: How can you understand 'it' if you haven't made any effort to understand 'you'? Because what you're really doing is establishing a living, electrical, vital, energetic connection between it and you. You're creating both of them, simultaneously. A lot like quantum physics.

You are not your resume, you are your work.

No more than six words on a slide. Ever. There is no presentation so complex that this rule needs to be broken.

If you're not proud of where you work, go work somewhere else.