“Once I stop spending energy trying to prevent things I have no control over, I have a tremendous amount of energy to focus on the places where I can make a difference.”
“Jealousy is a waste of energy...focus on what I have, not what I don't.”
“What an absurd amount of energy I have been wasting all my life trying to find out how things 'really are', when all the time they weren't.”
“Talent isn't genius, and no amount of energy can make it so. I want to be great, or nothing.”
“…because talent isn't genius, and no amount of energy can make it so. I want to be great, or nothing.”
“Simply giving employees a sense of agency- a feeling that they are in control, that they have genuine decision-making authority - can radically increase how much energy and focus they bring to their jobs.”