Fundamentally, we are a product of choice, not nature (genes) or nurture (upbringing, environment).

Independent will is our capacity to act. It gives us the power to transcend our paradigms, to swim upstream, to rewrite our scripts, to act based on principle rather than reacting based on emotion or circumstance.

Every time I see high-trust cultures, I see a lessening of adversarialism.

I'm convinced that we can write and live our own scripts more than most people will acknowledge. I also know the price that must be paid. It's a real struggle to do it. It requires visualization and affirmation. It involves living a life of integrity, starting with making and keeping promises, until the whole human personality the senses, the thinking, the feeling, and the intuition are ultimately integrated and harmonized.

Remember, technology is a great servant, but a terrible master.

Almost every significant breakthrough is the result of a courageous break with traditional ways of thinking.

If our feelings control our actions, it is because we have abdicated our responsibility and empowered them to do so.