“What did you love doing when you were 6, 8, 10 years old?” he said.

Here’s how you get better at any skill game: *Read as many books as you can that were written by players better than you. *Study hands and the analysis of those hands. *Study and think about your mistakes. Don’t regret your mistakes. You’ll always make mistakes. The better you are, the fewer mistakes you make. The only way to get better is to

values before money. A business is a group of people with a goal to solve a problem. Values might be: we want to solve a problem, we want the customer to be happy, we want employees to feel like they have upward mobility, etc.

“We but mirror the world. All the tendencies present in the outer world are to be found in the world of our body. If we could change ourselves, the tendencies in the world would also change. As a man changes his own nature, so does the attitude of the world change towards him. This is the divine mystery supreme. A wonderful thing it is and the

6.“Persistence is very important. You should not give up unless you are forced to give up.” I always think this is the magic equation: persistence + love = abundance.

7.“You want to have a future where you’re expecting things to be better, not one where you’re expecting things to be worse.”

Vonnegut’s critical tips on writing

Your legacy is not what you do. It’s what the people who you teach do.

Sales aren’t everything. I get it. And sometimes a work of art can be intended for the few and not the many. But the arbiters of taste are all using the past as their metrics. The future is still a blank slate. Else we’d be there.