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…this blend of constant dissatisfaction, unquenchable desires, and overbearing competitiveness can damage your mental health.

To build your working life around the experience of flow produced by deep work is a proven path to deep satisfaction.

…shallow behavior, though satisfying the moment, is not conducive to creativity.

…being impatient is simply a way of punishing yourself. It creates stress, dissatisfaction, and fear.

We are all starved for a win. It’s great to satisfy that by giving yourself doable tasks you can start and finish easily.

There’s great advantage for those organizations willing to end the reign of unstructured workflow and replace it with something designed from scratch with the specific goal of maximizing value production and employee satisfaction.

…once you have made yourself valuable to your organization, you should use this career capital as leverage to remake your position into something more satisfying.

The win-win mindset pushed by so many negotiation experts is usually ineffective and often disastrous. At best, it satisfies neither side.

…when all of [their] needs are satisfied, something unique happens to many employees and their relationship with the organization… It is what we call enthusiasm.

Moderately satisfied employees… comprise a generally willing workforce… However, it is more of a passive loyalty. Enthusiastic employees don’t need to be asked.