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To avoid the need to wrangle an always-filling inbox is a benefit that shouldn’t be underestimated.

…much of self-control is about integrating behavior over time – passing up immediate gratification for future benefits…

Know the emotional drivers and you can frame the benefits of any deal in language that will resonate.

Besides saying ‘No,’ the other key benefit of asking ‘How?’ is, quite literally, that it forces your counterpart to consider and explain how a deal with be implemented.

…the rise of intelligent machines will benefit a lot of us greatly, but there can be little doubt that they will also put a few percent of us out of work for some time to come.

…society is busy actively training up the population in an ongoing fashion. And more formal education is unlikely to be of much benefit.

As we have seen in most companies, downsizing the workforce is frequently a short-term solution with little or no long-term benefit.

Voluntarily following a leader is… making a bet on the future, relinquishing some degree of control over one’s fortune to someone else in the expectation that benefits will accrue from it.

Oneness is otherish. Most of the time that we give, it’s based on a cocktail of mixed motives to benefit others and ourselves.

…retain (earned) influence by saying something such as, ‘Listen, if our positions were ever reversed, I know you’d do the same for me.’ The benefits should be considerable.