Humble in our aspirations Gracious in our success Resilient in our failures

Most of us are in these stages in a fluid sense—we’re aspiring until we succeed, we succeed until we fail or until we aspire to more, and after we fail we can begin to aspire or succeed again.

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself—and you are the easiest person to fool. —

Precisely what makes us so promising as thinkers, doers, creatives, and entrepreneurs, what drives us to the top of those fields, makes us vulnerable to this darker side of the psyche.

Humble in our aspirations Gracious in our success Resilient in our failures

Be slow in deliberation, but be prompt to carry out your resolves

ego tells us what we want to hear, when we want to hear it.

“If you start believing in your greatness, it is the death of your creativity.”

“a conscious separation from.”