Debt creates stress, stress creates behaviors that don't lead to happiness.

If failure is not an option, neither is success. Innovation is just repeated failure till you come up with something that works.

Busy does not equal important. Measured doesn't mean mattered.

Most people with a big idea, great talent and/or something to say don't get lucky at first. Or second. Or even third. It's so easy to conclude that if you're not lucky, you're not good. So persistence becomes an essential element of good, because without persistence, you never get a chance to get lucky.

There's no correlation between how good your idea is and how likely your organization will be to embrace it.

We are too focused on avoiding criticism and not enough on making a difference.

Sometimes, we're so focused on being consistent that we also lower the bar on amazing. After all, the thinking goes, if we can't be amazing all the time, better to reset the expectation to merely good. Which robs us of the ability to (sometimes) be amazing.