8. “You can’t be brave if you’ve only had wonderful things happen to you”
- Mary Tyler Moore
1. Risk is the catalyst of growth
9. 2. Everything has a cost (even knowledge)
“A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing”
- Oscar Wilde
10. 3. Norms are invisible,
hidden in plain sight
“If you are different from the rest of the flock, they bite you”
- Vincent O’Sullivan, The Next Room
11. 4. Mindset is everything
“Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t, you are right”
- Henry Ford
12. 5. Feedback should be given,
and received, like a gift
“Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man’s growth without destroying his roots”
- Frank A Clark
13. 6. Don’t confuse a chapter in your life
with the whole story
“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
- Mae West
14. 7. When it comes to competence,
X is closer to ikigai than T
“I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious”
- Albert Einstein
15. 8. The only thing that stands between
you and your dreams is fear.
“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear”
- Mark Twain