Whatever your 'negative' character trait; own it. Your audience would much rather meet the real you.

Capitalism wants us to be excited about the opportunity. Twitter is filled with people enthusiastic about handing the baton for the creative process to Artificial Intelligence.

When you're thinking about selling something, think about the real cost. Often, it's far larger than the pricetag you've attached to your product/service.

Your preparation is to create a map of the place, and know what peaks you want to take everyone to.

It's true that practice is key to high performance. The problem isn't the act of practicing your speech. The problem is we tend to practice the wrong aspect of the speech.

If you’re going to make money (easily) as a professional, you need to be memorable. To be memorable, you need to be interesting. To be interesting, you need to tell stories with characters, emotions, and specificity.

Scripts are absolutely terrible because they (falsely) convince our brain there is a correct group of things that have to be said in this presentation, and that there's a correct order that they need to be said.

All this thinking—if we let it run rampant—almost inevitably leads to all those deep-seated subconscious beliefs that we're unworthy, unloveable, and doomed to failure.

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.