I was not a math person until I chose to become one.  I labeled myself in high school as not being good at math, settling for mediocrity, and avoiding advanced classes in it.  I think my avoidance might have been a response to my trying hard and still failing – it might confirm that I…

See your flaws Do not depend on others to reveal your inadequacies.  People are political, and will share mixed messages of both praise and criticism – rarely a complete or neutral picture.  You have to find out for yourself.  Learn from your mistakes and failures rather than defend them. Examine yourself honestly. See where your…

Knowledge is my superior Whenever it appears, I am forever its student.   What I was certain about yesterday has changed today.   I find myself in the regular refrain of “I may be wrong. Let me look again.” The greatest danger I face is not knowing less, it’s losing the desire to learn.    

See how high we can go.  See possibility.  Discover an inner sense of wonder. We have a tendency to fixate on the immediate, the practical, and the next step underfoot.  We can miss the larger world that surrounds us by letting life become a sequence of tasks rather than a story with direction and heightened…

Are you ready to try what you’re not sure you’re ready for?  To try what scares you? Are you ready to quit circling, take a position, and possibly be wrong?

Those who waste your time waste your life.  You cannot recover lost time. When others waste your time they are spending your life on their priorities, but the problem deepens when you waste your own time. It’s a quiet, self-inflicted tragedy to know what matters and still choose what doesn’t.