Once you free yourself from the need for perfect acceptance, it's a lot easier to launch work that matters.

Take the long way. Do the hard work, consistently and with generosity and transparency. And then you won't waste time doing it over.

And in a world where we have too many choices and too little time, the obvious thing to do is just ignore stuff. And my parable here is, you're driving down the road and you see a cow, and you keep driving 'cause you've seen cows before. Cows are invisible. Cows are boring. Who's going to stop and pull over and say, oh, look, a cow? Nobody.

Just saying yes because you can't bear the short-term pain of saying no is not going to help you do the work.

Little changes cost you. Big changes benefit you by changing the game, but only if you go first.

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

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