Find canvases for other people to paint on. Be an anteambulo. Clear the path for the people above you and you will eventually create a path for yours… - Ryan Holiday

Silence. The ability to deliberately keep yourself out of the conversation and subsist without its validation. Silence is the respite of the confident and the strong.

Reject distraction.
Weigh advice against the counsel of our convictions.
Deliberate without being paralyzed.

We will learn that though we think big, we must act and live small in order to accomplish what we seek. Because we will be action and education focused, and forgo validation and status, our ambition will not be grandiose but iterative — one foot in front of the other, learning and growing and putting in the time.