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Given the way our brains are designed, we actually learn less well when we’re presented with a great deal of information all at once.

The… key to innovation is a culture that prizes learning and truly invests in it.

Any organization that fails to build a robust learning program… ought to expect that its people won’t get better at their jobs over time and may well get worse.

Genuine humility frees us of the need to protect an image of ourselves or stand above others. It gives us permission instead to accept, embrace, and learn from our limitations.

Passion is an extraordinary fuel for persevering through frustration as we move along the learning curve. It also helps keep us committed to growth once we’ve achieved excellence.

Every leader needs to have experienced and grown through following – learning to be dedicated, observant, capable of working with and learning from others, never servile, always truthful.

Leaders wonder about everything, want to learn as much as they can, are willing to take risks, experiment, try new things. They do not worry about failure, but embrace errors, knowing they will learn from them.

Writing is the most profound way of codifying your thoughts, the best way of learning from yourself who you are and what you believe.

Applauding yourself for the small successes, and taking the small bow, are good ways of learning to experience life each moment that you live it. And that’s part of inventing yourself, of creating your own destiny.

…leaders learn from others, but they are not made by others. This is the mark of leaders.