No one-not rock stars, not professional athletes, not software billionaires, and not even geniuses-ever makes it alone - Malcolm Gladwell

the tallest oak in the forest is the tallest not just because it grew from the hardiest acorn; it is the tallest also because no other trees blocked its sunlight, the soil around it was deep and rich, no rabbit chewed through its bark as a sapling, and no lumberjack cut it down before it matured.

Practice isn’t the thing you do once you’re good. It’s the thing you do that makes you good.

That’s the consequence of not defaulting to truth. If you don’t begin in a state of trust, you can’t have meaningful social encounters.