I don’t want to be perfect. I want to be useful, I want to be good, and I want to sound like myself. Trying to be perfect gets in the way of all thre….

Experiment is the expected failure to deliberately learn something..

History can't give attention to what's been lost, hidden, or deliberately buried; it is mostly a telling of success, not the partial failures that en….

Good public speaking is based on good private thinking.

Commit yourself to taking enough risks that you will fail some of the time. If you're not failing, we're not doing something sufficiently difficult o….

If you'd like to be good at something, the first thing to out the window is the notion of perfection..

It’s not the fear of writing that blocks people, it’s fear of not writing well; something quite different..

Most people doubt online meeting scan work, but they somehow overlook that most in person meetings don't work either..

The temptation many creative people I know have is to strive for popularity. To make, do, and say things that other people like in the hopes of pleas….

This is one big problem with working remotely: no one believes you have a job at all..

My intent is simply to know my material so well that I'm very comfortable with it. Confidence, not perfection, is the goal..

No one has died from giving a bad presentation. Well, at least one person did, President William Henry Harrison, but he developed pneumonia after giv….

Innovation is significant positive change..

When I'm the speaker, I know that special moment [just before speaking] is the only time I will have the entire audience's full attention. Unless an ….

All great tasks test our motivation. It's easy to court ideas over beers and change the world with napkin sketches, but like most things taken home f….

Staying curious and open is what makes growth possible, and it requires practice to maintain that mindset. To keep learning, we have to avoid the te….

There is a big difference between wanting to say you wrote a book, and actually writing one. Many people think they want to write, even though they f….

People tell me this is obvious. But it's ok to be obvious. Knowing and doing are different. Many people know many obvious things they completely fail….

It seems that bad advice that's fun will always be better known than than good advice that's dull-no matter how useless that fun advice is..

Innovative ideas are rarely rejected on their merits; they’re rejected because of how they make people feel. If you forget people’s concerns and feel….

Anyone can criticize or accept praise, but initiating a positive exchange is a hallmark of a difference maker..