Useful rule of thumb: If you’re over the age of 25, assume your initial reactions about new trends are wrong. It’s ok to have no opinion until you’ve… - George Mack

If you compliment someone behind their back, the listener respects your loyalty. If you gossip about someone behind their back, the listener starts wondering if you'll do the same once their back is turned.

Friendstration - A feeling of frustration when you believe in a friend more than they believe in themselves.

The strangest paradox I've seen in highly creative people is how uncreative their creative process is. Simply saying: "I will sit down and come up with twenty bad ideas every day this year" often beats any fancy note-taking system or binging LSD waiting for ideas to happen.