made a graph that shows how to find meaning

Your brain may have a region for doing hard things. The anterior mid-cingulate cortex is linked to persistence and willingness to exert effort. Aerobic exercise may even increase its volume.

Focus on where you want to go, not on what you fear.

you're not having enough uncomfortable conversations for the life you say you want.

The hardest lesson NFL MVP Steve Young ever had to learn. "Fear-based thinking is a liar. I was afraid of failure, so much so that I paid this price so that I could have success. I learned as an older person, that's a fallacy. That's fraudulent." "I'm not going to pay for success with my worry and fretting. Man, fame is a thief. Fear-based thinking is a thief. There's a lot of thieves in life."

C. S. lewis with maybe the greatest paragraph ever written on love

Nine times out of ten, solving for speed is the correct decision. And the bigger the org, the more it will try and solve for “error free” and in so doing create the largest error of all - irrelevance.

The only thing holding you back is believing you need to eliminate fear before taking action.

Most people understand the importance of asking for help in a life-or-death crisis. But in our personal and professional lives, Americans are encouraged to pursue rugged individualism over interdependency.

Something I noticed about resilient people: They don't have fewer problems. They have faster reset times. Bad news hits at 9am. By 10am, they're back to their priorities. They feel it, process it, and move. The speed of the reset matters more than the size of the setback.