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Many people who find their work fulfilling have achieved some degree of expertise in their work. It feels good to be good at something.

People are more apt to want to work with you if they feel they can trust you – an important consideration especially if one wants financial backing for projects.

…people feel good when they make regular progress on stuff that matters to them. Then, completing the positive feedback loop, when they feel good, they’re more likely to make progress.

Small steps lead to good feelings lead to small steps: the virtuous circle strengthens and rises.

Being CEO… requires a broad set of more advanced skills, but the key to reaching the advanced level and feeling like you were born to be CEO is mastering the unnatural.

An organization in which people are constantly concerned about feelings and about what other people will or will not like is not an organization that has good human relations.

Overstaffed organizations create work rather than performance. They also create friction, sensitivity, irritation, and concern with feelings.

When you procrastinate, you’re not avoiding effort. You’re avoiding the unpleasant feelings that the activity stirs up. Sooner or later, though, you realize that you’re also avoiding getting where you want to go.

If we wait until we feel ready to take on a new challenge, we might never pursue it at all. There may not come a day when we wake up and suddenly feel prepared. We become prepared by taking the leap anyway.

One of the most frustrating parts of honing a skill is getting stuck. Instead of continuing to improve, you start to stagnate. It feels as if you’ve reached the upper bound of your mental or physical capacities.