1. When people tell you who they are, Maya Angelou famously advised, believe them. Just as important, however, when people try to tell you who  you  are, don’t believe them. You are the only custodian of your own integrity, and the assumptions made by those that misunderstand who you are and what you stand for reveal a great deal a

To understand and be understood, those are among life’s greatest gifts, and every interaction is an opportunity to exchange them.

Concept of art that magnifies your spirit. (Introspect)

The bigger question of what to do with your life is one of these problems with a hard core. There are important problems at the center, which tend to be hard, and less important, easier ones at the edges. So as well as the small, daily adjustments involved in working on a specific problem, you'll occasionally have to make big, lifetime-scale adjust

One thing I know is that if you want to do great things, you'll have to work very hard.

Do nothing for prestige or status or money or approval alone. As  Paul Graham observed , “prestige is like a powerful magnet that warps even your beliefs about what you enjoy.

Allow yourself the uncomfortable luxury of changing your mind.