The most successful givers aren’t doing it because they’re being told to. They do it because doing it is fun. It gives them joy.

The organizations of the future are filled with smart, fast, flexible people on a mission

We're often in a hurry to finish. Or in a hurry to close a sale. What happens when we adopt the posture of being in a hurry to be generous? With resources or insight or access or kindness... It's an interesting sort of impatience.

Do your art. But don't wreck your art if it doesn't lend itself to paying the bills. That would be a tragedy.

The goal of a marketing interaction isn't to close the sale, any more than the goal of a first date is to get married. No, the opportunity is to move forward, to earn attention and trust and curiosity and conversation.

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.

Way more productive, I think, to push yourself to be more in the world, not to encourage yourself to hide.