If you've got the platform and the ability to make a difference, then this goes beyond 'should' and reaches the level of 'must.' You must make a difference or you squander the opportunity. Wasting the opportunity both degrades your own ability to contribute and, more urgently, takes something away from the rest of us.

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 question is not Will you succeed? but rather, Will you matter?

Set up a life you don't need to escape from.

The key to success is to find a way to stand out--to be the purple cow in a field of monochrome Holsteins.

Go do something interesting. Ask if you need help.

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.