Perhaps your challenge isn't finding a better project or a better boss. Perhaps you need to get in touch with what it means to feel passionate. People with passion look for ways to make things happen.

Without people pushing against your quest to do something worth talking about, it's unlikely to be worth the journey. Persist.

Don't find customers for your products, find products for your customers.

The application process changes the list of who applies. Your applicants reflect your methods.

If it's worth doing, it's worth doing well.

And it doesn't matter to me whether you're running a coffee shop or you're an intellectual or you're in business or flying hot air balloons. People who can spread ideas, regardless of what those ideas are, win. But consumers, they got way more choices than they used to and way less time.

In nearly every case, trying to lead everyone results in leading no one in particular.