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When we urge people to ‘think outside of the box,’ we are generally asking them to discard mental models.

…if you want to truly create a revolutionary product, you have to shift your thinking from a bottom-up task focus (which will only get you so far) to a top down focus that starts with the experience you wish people to have.

…how we think cannot be separated from how we feel. At all times, we are evaluating (affect) and interpreting (cognition) the world around us.

Put aside the sales mantra of ‘always be closing’ and think ‘always be giving.’

Agile fiction and coding-centric thinking makes us believe that an omniscient product owner magically conjures well-forced, right-sized rocks for a team.

Think big. Remember, the company that acquires you will have more resources for you to accelerate your growth.

…if we can challenge our outmoded attitudes about time and how work gets done… then we can move toward a new way of working and thinking about work.

…by living mostly desk-bound sedentary lives, we expend too little physical energy and grow progressively weaker. Inactivity takes a toll not just on our bodies, but also on how we feel and how we think.

Our core need at the mental level is self-expression, the freedom to put our unique skills and talents to effective use in the world.

If you have to consciously think for very long about doing something, it’s unlikely you’ll end up doing it for very long.