Flexible in the face of change, resilient in the face of confusion. All of these attributes are choices, not talents, and all of them are available to you.

Here's the fascinating part, call it the golden shoulder: We have no idea in advance who the great contributors are going to be. We know that there's a huge cohort of people struggling outside the boundaries of the curated, selected few, but we don't know who they are.

'How was your day?' is a question that matters a lot more than it seems.

At the age of four, you were an artist. And at seven, you were a poet.

We fail when we give up too soon.

You're competing against people in a state of flow, people who are truly committed, people who care deeply about the outcome.

'Teamwork' is the word that bosses use when they actually mean 'Do what I say'