Put yourself out there. Adopt a growth mindset. Be bold and brave with your strategies. Learn in public.

My advice for action in business is pretty much the same. It’s easy to get ready. You just have to act before you’re ready.

No paradox. Just different people doing their job best.

If you agree, and you realise this is equally true about the people around you, the idea of leadership can start to become pretty simple; just give people courage.

No matter the domain, and almost no matter the person, something I’m consistently asking people to do is share more of themselves—their true selves, if there is such a thing—with the world.

It's generally more useful and constructive to worry less about yourself and instead cultivate a concern and curiosity for the experience of the audience.

The slow and steady improvement is much harder to make a compelling story out of, so it rarely happens.

If success is your goal, there are few things you can do that will contribute more than to expand your network.

Being prolific isn’t just about building a personal brand, or making more money, or being seen to be successful, however, important as those things might be.

That process of collecting and developing good ideas becomes vastly easier, though, when you develop an active awareness and a simple system that you employ in your daily life.

But just as the old adage teaches that, physically, you are what you eat; I reckon intellectually, you are what you read.

The point at which the parts become a car is arbitrary. The point at which the materials become a house is arbitrary. The Ship of Theseus thought experiment explores this realisation.

I reckon the education-industrial complex has some serious questions to answer about its efficacy. The closer my kids get to school-age, the more I think about the ways that school feels more like industrial child-minding than the ideal way to prepare a child for the modern world.

The point of winning is the process of earning it. It’s the value in being willing to do the work to do something great. It’s the fulfilment that comes with knowing you’ve made more of yourself than you might otherwise have.

The true source of our motivations and preferences is, I think, almost completely opaque to us. Importantly, there are some situations which take us into ethically grey areas, where understanding how our motivations and preferences are formed might give us a better opportunity to create the world we want to live in.

If elite performance is your personal or collective goal, negative feedback is critical to improvement. People need to know what they're doing poorly so that they can make the necessary adjustments and raise their performance.

Sport provides an environment in which we can reliably (and safely) fail. It sharpens every aspect of us, physically, mentally, emotionally, to perform better under stress.

It's the wrong question because the mechanics of our greatest strengths are completely invisible to us.