You can't do anything halfway.
The fewer constraints that you give someone, the more freedom they have to solve the problem, and the more freedom they have to surprise you with the solution.
You never sort of want to go over into the arrogant zone because that's really a dangerous place to be.
Being mildly obsessive compulsive is actually a good thing.
Intuition isn't just airy-fairy. It's not a feeling. Your brain has been fed with hundreds of different things, and from that, you make a decision. You can't rationalize it.
It'd be one thing if we tried and we gave it our all and we just weren't good enough. I'd be salty as hell, but it would be an outcome that I could live with. But if we felt like we could've gone for it all, we could've pushed harder, and we didn't — I don't think we would live with ourselves in that outcome.
There is a part of me that doesn't want to show up for anything, and I have to overcome that every day.
If you understand how to have a deep curiosity about everything — and I mean everything — you have an edge that cannot be beaten.
Problems are your friend. You don't want to just tolerate problems. You want to embrace problems. You want to hug problems. Problems are the way you succeed. You want to run to the fire. You don't want to run away from the fire.
People don't pursue original paths usually because they're fearful of the unknown... when you really drill people on why not, they'll give reasons that add up to, 'I'm afraid.'
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