The joy of art is particularly sweet, though, because it carries with it the threat of rejection, of failure, and of missed connections. It's precisely the high-wire act of "this might not work" that makes original art worth doing.

Do the emotional labor of working on things that others fear.

If failure isn't an option, then success isn't either. Success is just failure repeated until it works.

If it's worth listening to, it's worth questioning until you understand it.

You are not your resume, you are your work.

It’s okay. Let your ego push you to be the initiator. But tell your ego that the best way to get something shipped is to let other people take the credit. The real win for you (and your ego) is seeing something get shipped, not in getting the credit when it does.

Ideas don't get smaller when they're shared, they get bigger.