1. Being Faithful to Your Ideals Is a Force-Multiplier

4. It’s Okay Not to Be Okay

“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”

10. The Orson Welles Memo

the making of a masterpiece is much less about the cash to be made and much more about the character of the creator.

11. Nothing’s Perfect

the more you embrace this understanding around The Imperfection of All Things, the more you will pretty nearly automatically start to see the magic within the messy.

14. Stop Calling Your Genius Sh*t

Splendid language has charisma to it.

16. Guard Good Health like a Pro Athlete

“Health is not valued until sickness comes.”

“Those who don’t make time for exercise must eventually make time for illness,”

18. A Contrarian Philosophy for Mastering Unexpected Change

the nature of Nature is unyielding change. And sometimes the foundations we stand on must fall so that they may be replaced with even stronger ones. Breakthroughs require breakdowns. Progress cannot happen without upheaval and the birth of something better always demands a death of something familiar.

What is easiest to do is generally what is least valuable to do.

19. You’re Absolutely More than Enough

Too much money can become a formula for complexity, difficulty and often outright misery.