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

If you're not willing to get your 'worst one ever' out of the way, how will you possibly do better than that?

Sometimes, we're so focused on being consistent that we also lower the bar on amazing. After all, the thinking goes, if we can't be amazing all the time, better to reset the expectation to merely good. Which robs us of the ability to (sometimes) be amazing.

Saying no to loud people gives you the resources to say yes to important opportunities.

If you believe that a given situation should make you unhappy, then it will, and the unhappiness will then reinforce the condition.

The only thing worse than starting something and failing... is not starting something.

You succeed because you've chosen to be confident. It's not really useful to require yourself to be successful before you're able to become confident.