Sure, compare. But compare the things that matter to the journey you're on. The rest is noise.

The myth that the CEO is going to discover you and nurture you and ask you to join her for lunch is just that, a Hollywood myth.

Ideas in secret die. They need light and air or they starve to death.

Choices lead to habits. Habits become talents. Talents are labeled gifts. You’re not born this way, you get this way.

Repeating easy tasks again and again gets you not very far. Attacking only steep cliffs where no progress is made isn’t particularly effective either. No, the best path is an endless series of difficult (but achievable) hills.

More time [to decide] without more information just creates anxiety, not insight.

Those that spend the most effort in search of shortcuts are often the most disappointed and the least successful.