One of a therapist’s chief functions—though rarely taught or discussed—is to offer clients a credible vision of how great their life can be.
This makes a therapist who’s witnessed spiritual and material abundance like 1000x more effective than one who hasn’t.
A system’s ability to meet its desired (or required) quality attributes is substantially determined by its architecture. If you remember nothing else from this book, remember that.
once the architecture has been agreed upon, it becomes very costly—for managerial and business reasons—to significantly modify it. This is one argument (among many) for analyzing the software architecture for a large system before settling on a specific choice.
So much of self-regulation comes down to 2 interrelated powers: 1) keeping yourself inspired, and 2) keeping yourself accountable.
Recognizing in a felt way that “this is worth doing”, and that “I’m responsible for doing it.”