Patricia Mou

Do the work.  That's all the productivity advice you need, and the only useful productivity advice you're ever going to get.

Time is not fungible – a given moment of opportunity, or a chance to respond appropriately to a crisis, might not occur again.

10. Be Yourself.

Coordinating with other humans is key to achieving lasting impact. Coordination helps us grow our well of common knowledge, build things, become better humans and create more value for the world than we could on our own.

 When brainstorming, improvising, jamming with others, you’ll go much further and deeper if you build upon each contribution with a playful “yes — and” example instead of a deflating “no — but” reply.

I believe that extolling the pursuit of happiness was a toxic stupidity entirely unworthy of my greatest American hero, Thomas Jefferson. Indeed, it is a poison that sickens our culture more wretchedly every nanosecond. I wish he'd never said it.It produces a monstrous, insatiable hunger inside our national psyche that encourages us ever more... See more

Sometimes, learning what you don’t want might be as important as discovering what you do. That’s growing, too.