Start at the top then work your way up. - Peter Diamandis

Autonomy is the desire to steer our own ship. Mastery is the desire to steer it well. And purpose is the need for the journey to mean something.

And this doesn't just mean taking physical risks. The science shows that other risks — emotional, intellectual, creative, social — work just as well. "To reach flow," explains psychiatrist Ned Hallowell,22 "one must be willing to take risks. The lover must be willing to risk rejection to enter this state. The athlete must be willing to risk physical harm, even loss of life, to enter this state. The artist must be willing to be scorned and despised by critics and the public and still push on. And the average person — you and me — must be willing to fail, look foolish, and fall flat on our faces should we wish to enter this state.

industrialized model of education, with its emphasis on the rote memorization of facts, is no longer necessary. Facts are what Google does best. But creativity, collaboration, critical thinking, and problem solving — that's a different story. These skills have been repeatedly stressed by everyone from corporate executives to education experts as the fundamentals required by today's jobs.