The way that you become world-class is... by asking good questions.

Sometimes you need to go on a low-information diet.

The golden years become lower-middle-class life revisited. That's a bittersweet ending.

I really feel like knife skills - not just in the kitchen, but in life - are really critical.

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.

Effectiveness is doing the things that get you closer to your goals. Efficiency is performing a given task (whether important or not) in the most economical manner possible. Being efficient without regard to effectiveness is the default mode of the universe.

You don't have to travel, but I find extended travel to be a helpful tool for reexamining yourself and the constraints you've artificially placed on your life. It's easy to believe everything has to be done one way if you're always in one place around the same people.