Thought provoking

I think one thing that is a really important thing to strive for is being internally driven, being driven to compete with yourself, not with other people. If you compete with other people, you end up in this mimetic trap, and you sort of play this tournament, and if you win, you lose. But if you’re competing with yourself, and all you’re trying to ... See more

Michael Jordan left basketball to play baseball and it didn't go exactly as he had planned, there were a bunch of reasons why. And then the baseball strike happened and he starts playing with the Bulls again […] That to me is actually not a story about him getting back to the thing he was good at. It's a story about somebody who had the courage to ... See more

Fear is self-focused. Day to day, our fear is about us. What will happen if we give that speech, launch that project, get stuck in traffic, are eaten by an alligator...

And generosity is about others. “How can I help?”

Jumping in the water to save a struggling swimmer stops us from worrying about how we look in our suit or whether the water is cold. ... See more