Put aside your need for a step-by-step manual and instead realize that analogies are your best friend.

New fashions (of all sorts) come from unexpected places, not from the arbiters of what's correct.

If you can embrace the idea that your success and happiness are tied up in defeating the fear that's holding you back, you're 90 percent of the way to where you need to go, because no, we're not kids, and no, this is not a bike.

The reason business writing is horrible is that people are afraid. Afraid to say what they mean, because they might be criticized for it. Afraid to be misunderstood, to be accused of saying what they didn't mean, because they might be criticized for it.

Our best work can't possibly appeal to the average masses, only our average work can. Finding the humility to happily walk away from those that don't get it unlocks our ability to do great work.

Shame must be accepted to be effective.

It's never too late to start heading in the right direction.