We have little choice but to move beyond quality and seek remarkable, connected, and new. Remarkable, as you've already figured out, demands initiative.

The key to getting a reputation for being brilliant is actually being brilliant, not just acting like you are.

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.

Be relentlessly generous, without focusing on when it will come back to you.

The one path that never works is the most common one: doing nothing at all.

I see things differently when I'm focused on opening doors for other people, and more often than not, my doors are opened as well.

Seeing, despite the name, isn’t merely visual.