ideas are the most valuable currency of our time. Nothing else.

Ultimately, the best speakers are the ones who have put 10,000 hours into listening.

Don’t put pressure on yourself to come up with good ideas. The key right now is just to have ideas, period.

When you are in the Idea Machine, nothing can stop you. This is where abundance is. This is where seeds are planted. This is where you dip into other dimensions not yet created.

Here’s a secret: you don’t have to worry about “finding” your passion. You’re naturally going to get passionate about what you are good at.

True wealth occurs when you don’t have to bow down to any gatekeepers—regardless of the money involved. Money is just a by-product. You are out of prison. You are free.

We don’t write about the things we know. We write about the things that are deep down challenges for us right now.

How Do I Execute My Ideas? Here’s what I do often when I am writing down ideas that I think I might want to act on: I divide my paper into two columns. In one column is the list of ideas. In the other column is the list of “First Steps”—only the first step, because you have no idea where that first step will take you.

Only stepping out of the prison imposed on you from your factory will allow you to achieve abundance. You can’t see it now. It’s hard to see the gardens when you are locked in jail. Abundance only comes when you are moving along your themes—when you are truly enhancing the lives of the people around you. It happens when you wake up every day with