When exactly were we brainwashed into believing that the best way to earn a living is to have a job?

The tiny cost of failure...is dwarfed by the huge cost of not trying.

A well-defined backup plan is sabotage waiting to happen. Why push through the dip, why take the risk, why blow it all when there's the comfortable alternative instead? The people who break through usually have nothing to lose, and they almost never have a backup plan.

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.

Everyone will think it's stupid!" "Everyone says it's impossible." Guess what? Everyone works in the balloon factory and everyone is wrong.

Go ahead, fail. Try to avoid mistakes, though.

The reason they want you to fit in... is that once you do, then they can ignore you.