Alice laughed. "There is no use trying," she said: "one can't believe impossible things."
"I dare say you haven't had much practice," said the Queen. "When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."
by Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass
"This isn't about waiting for the right answer, because there is no right answer. There are challenges we can sign up for and emotions we can experience."
"...if you are waiting for the perfect horse on that carousel to come
around you missed 3, 4, 5, 7 cycles while you were waiting. All the horses are just as good. It's the same carousel. Just get on the damn horse!"
"...it's does this interaction leave behind a trail that I'm proud of and does having the interaction make me glad that I did it and want to do it again..."
"You gain trust and permission by showing up in a way that you want someone to show up for you."
"Productivity is an economic measure of how much you output for the amount of time and resources you put in."
"We have to acknowledge we have finite resources, finite time, finite connection. How will we use them to produce outcomes that we are proud of?"
"Dealing with disappointment and setbacks:
We can be mindful,
We can be present,
We can breathe,
and We can say: "That's interesting."
"The long way is the shortcut."
"...what is school for?.... I think it's for two things: teach people to lead and teach them to solve interesting problems. The way you do that is by teaching kids to fail at solving interesting problems because that's the only way you ever get good at solving interesting problems."
"...what it means to be a free range kid: come home with straight A's is fine, I'll accept that, but what I'd rather have you do is come home and tell me something amazing that you LEARNED with the spirit of doing something GOOD for someone else, come home and tell me some really dramatic FAILURE that occurred as you were trying to solve an interesting problem."
"Permission is the privilege of being looked forward to and being missed when you are gone."
"Our goal isn't to touch everyone. OUr goal is to touch someone. To change someone, just one person. If you get good at that, do 5, then do 100. Stop worrying about everyone. Everyone doesn't matter."
