People feel personally slighted if you don't respond to them in 30 seconds and treat email as instant messenger.

Most people are fast to stop you before you get started but hesitate to get in the way if you're moving.

But if it's tolerable mediocrity, and you're like, 'Well, you know it could be worse. At least I'm getting paid.' Then you wind up in a job that is slowly killing your soul and you're allowing that to happen. Comfort can be a very, very dangerous thing.

I think time management as a label encourages people to view each 24-hour period as a slot in which they should pack as much as possible.

Lacking an external focus, the mind turns inward on itself and creates problems to solve, even if the problems are undefined or unimportant. If you find a focus, an ambitious goal that seems impossible and forces you to grow, these doubts disappear.

Get good at being a troublemaker and saying sorry when you really screw up

Every time I find myself stressed out, it's because I do things primarily driven by growth.