Way more productive, I think, to push yourself to be more in the world, not to encourage yourself to hide.
Tribes makes our lives better, and leading a tribe is the best life of all.
As soon as we associate reading with a test, we've missed the point.
Winners quit all the time. They just quit the right stuff at the right time.
The answer to the question "where do good ideas come from" is always the same, the come from bad ideas. If you come up with 20 bad ideas you get one good one.
The big win is when you refuse to settle for average or mediocre.