Look beyond the job title, and focus on your mission.

listening—really listening—to people around you, and delegating responsibility to them. Most of all, it means building trust: earning the trust of others, trusting them in return, and trusting that together you can build something bigger and more inspiring than any of you could achieve on your own.

How can we best realize the value that others can add to the development of our projects and ourselves?

To build a career, the right question is not “What job am I passionate about doing?” but instead “What way of working and living will nurture my passion?”

asking for help when you need it actually makes people think you are more capable, not less.

So when you feel you have accomplished something, write it down soon, before a client or critic has the opportunity to say something that diminishes that sense of progress.

The great thing about the Get Better mind-set is that it is practically bulletproof. When we think about what we are doing in terms of learning and improving, accepting that we may make some mistakes along the way, we stay motivated and persist despite the setbacks that might occur.

When I was training my memory, I kept meticulous spreadsheets to track my performance.

A ritualized approach to practice helps conserve our precious and finite reserves of energy.