Engaging in a collaborative model of shared decision-making allows patients to feel in control of the healing process and their therapeutic decisions.

I think it’s important just being aware the anxiety is making you unhappy. The anxiety is just a series of running thoughts.

past.

think the most common mistake for humanity is believing you’re going to be made happy because of some external circumstance.

Achieving acceptance is very difficult. I have a couple of hacks I try, but I wouldn’t say they are totally successful. One hack is stepping back and looking at previous bits of suffering I’ve had in my life. I write them down. “Last time you broke up with somebody, last time you had a business failure, last time you had a health issue, what

You’re not going to get rich renting out your time. You must own equity—a piece of a business—to gain your financial freedom.

I’m glad I went down the road of technology and science, which I genuinely enjoy. I got to combine my vocation and my avocation.

Status is a zero-sum game. It’s a very old game. We’ve been playing it since monkey tribes. It’s hierarchical. Who’s number one? Who’s number two? Who’s number three? And for number three to move to number two, number two has to move out of that slot. So, status is a zero-sum game. Politics is an example of a status game. Even sports are an example

Specific knowledge is knowledge you cannot be trained for. If society can train you, it can train someone else and replace you.