Johann Van Tonder

So many business leaders and entrepreneurs started with the dictum: "bigger and better"

I want to have a company with 200 people, 300 people. I want to be growing my company and scaling it and then selling it and exiting.

And that's right for some people, but the number of individuals I've worked with who along the way have realized, actually,

Our identity, our storyline, is created by what we repeat. It becomes what we believe.

Andy HS

To a certain extent we are wasting our time. We have a perfect model of the world—it is the world! But it is too complicated.

Rohan Alexander, Telling Stories With Data

“Fooling around with alternating current (AC) is just a waste of time. Nobody will use it, ever.”

• Thomas Edison (1889)

Notice what happens when you satisfy a craving, something small like piece of cake / chocolate. Do you really feel happier?

- Andy Puddicombe

“…this discovery of yours will create forgetfulness in the learners’ souls, because they will not use their memories; they will trust to the external written characters and not remember of themselves. The specific which you have discovered is an aid not to memory, but to reminiscence, and you give your disciples not truth, but only the semblance of