The only path to amazing runs directly through not-yet-amazing

We do not need to teach students to embrace the status quo.

The good news is that more than ever, value accrues to those that show up, those that make a difference, those that do work that matters.

The nature of revolutions is that they destroy the perfect and enable the impossible.

Way more productive, I think, to push yourself to be more in the world, not to encourage yourself to hide.

Empathy requires something extremely difficult: accepting the fact that we are not and never will be in the other person's shoes. There's no rational, universal course because individuals have different goals, different worldviews and different experiences.

People rarely buy what they need. They buy what they want.