I think about willpower almost never. I realize for myself, trying to be more disciplined is pretty nebulous and it's often a slippery target. For me, I've just thought about incentives.

People who avoid all criticism fail. It's destructive criticism we need to avoid, not criticism in all forms.

It's not enough to have the right answers. You have to have the right questions.

There are a lot of things that can be learned from the darker corners of athletics. You have doctors who view bodybuilders as cavalier amateurs of science. And then you have the bodybuilders who view the doctors as too conservative to do anything interesting. So I've tried to become the middleman for putting some of those pieces together.

What's the worst that could happen?

Excitement is the more practical synonym for happiness, and it is precisely what you should strive to chase. It is the cure-all.

Doing something unimportant well does not make it important.