Awareness, even at a subconscious level, beats fancy checklists without it, track or you will fail.

I value self-discipline, but creating systems that make it next to impossible to misbehave is more reliable than self-control.

There are two components that are fundamental to enjoy life and feel good about yourself: continual learning and service.

I have plenty of money to do what I want to do, and I have the relationships.

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.

There is an infinite selection of things that I could test in life, so I generally will look for a critical mass of word that comes back to me. At this point I have hundreds of friends who are the best at what they do, arguably number one in the country or in the world. I will oftentimes just kind of throw a volley out to people, ask them what they're obsessing on or what they find interesting that's on the fringe. If the same answer comes back a few times, I'm like, "Okay."

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