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I came to a fundamental insight that would guide my future work: our potential is one thing. What we do with it is quite another. — Angela Duckworth You may have heard the phrase “To thine own self be true”. This often repeated line from the Shakespeare play Hamlet is often taken to mean that you need to be you and that you shouldn’t act in a way that only pleases others. But what version of you are you being true to? Every one of us is a complicated mix of intentions, wants, hopes, dreams and habits. We are all…

Mistakes are a great educator when one is honest enough to admit them and willing to learn from them. — Aleksander Solzhenitsyn We all make mistakes. Despite our best efforts we trip up. Mistakes can happen due to a variety of reasons from weakness to lack of skill to pure chance. No matter what we do we will continue to make mistakes, so what can we do with them? How can we turn them into a tool for growth? The wonderful thing about mistakes is that they can teach us where the edges of our skills and abilities lie. Like…

In the long-run (and often in the short-run), your willpower will never beat your environment. — James Clear Do you have good intentions? So many of us do. So often, when we talk about good intentions it is in the context of things we think we should do, but which we don’t do. We intend to lose weight. We intend to learn a new skill. We intend to write that book or start that company. We intend to do so many things. For too many of us though, our intentions are less of a road map we are following than…

Few things are more distracting than the cruel stories we tell ourselves. — Ryder Carroll Do you hear voice? We all do. Each of us has a running dialog inside our head. Our inner voice. Our consciousness. This inner voice is usually running all the time. Sometimes it is giving us impressions or may only be experienced as emotions. Other times it our inner voice is giving us running commentary on life. At its best, this inner voice is a trusted counselor and friend. It can help us think through problems, reason about the world and learn new things. At…