We need to care enough to connect, to put ourselves at emotional risk and play one note worth hearing.

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

You can't win by being more average than average.

Playing the game is a form of winning the game. In those competitions, we win by being resilient.

Do the emotional labor of working on things that others fear.

A symptom of the revolution: When we state something is impossible in theory, but then change our minds when we discover that it is possible in practice.

Or, if I take that same auditorium and I make it much bigger and put more space between seats, it'll be quieter because it's much harder when you're not in physical contact with people to spread a virus from person-to-person, right? There are all sorts of patterns that we see in epidemiology that help us understand why something spreads.