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If you want to become enduring and self-sustaining, you must focus your thinking through the lens of principled thought, and let those values-based considerations inform everything you do or say.

We cannot control how someone else receives us, but we can do our best to share in line with our own values.

…you absolutely should evaluate relationships, and possibly end them, with people who don’t treat you well, are abusive, or don’t value your relationship.

Discover what you value and follow it until the end, knowing that sometimes life is going to hurt and that’s what makes it worth living.

…I’m encouraging you to opt out of the quest for happiness altogether. Focus on finding fulfillment, forging your own path, and living a life in line with your values.

It’s a good idea to consistently check in with your values and how you’re living.

…most managers are very bad at [managing people], yet that’s the most valuable thing they do as a manager.

With a culture of urgency, people deeply value the capacity to grab new opportunities, avoid new hazards, and continually find ways to win.

…the most valuable aspects of jobs are now… the most essentially human tasks: sensing, judging, creating, and building relationships.

Unrestrained empowerment can be a value killer.