You can always tell the golfer who's winning: he's the one who keeps telling his opponent that it's only a game.
Wikipedia represents a belief in the supremacy of reason and goodness of others.
If you want people to perform better, you reward them, right? Bonuses, commissions, their own reality show. Incentivize them. . . . But that's not happening here. You've got an incentive designed to sharpen thinking and accelerate creativity, and it does just the opposite. It dulls thinking and blocks creativity.
The three things that motivate creative people - autonomy, mastery, purpose!
The future belongs to a very different kind of person with a very different kind of mind - creators and empathizers, pattern recognizers and meaning makers.
Asking "Why?" can lead to understanding. Asking "Why not?" can lead to breakthroughs.
Human beings have an innate inner drive to be autonomous, self-determined, and connected to one another. And when that drive is liberated, people achieve more and live richer lives.
If you're following your heart, you're moving in the right direction.
I want to be working with directors who are at the top of their game. I want to be raising the bar for myself, and to me, the best way to do that is to prove to them that I'm the best for this job.
I made the decision. I'm accountable.
Light in the heart has an interesting phenomenon. When you look at this world from here, now, light has shadows because light comes from a source. But, the same light inside the heart, which I've spent so much time looking at and so have other people, has no shadow because the light appears to come from everywhere.