Highly-quality relationships are transformational, not transactional. Often, the transformation is unpredictable and unexpected, as collaboration is … - Benjamin P. Hardy

Research shows that doctors who have been in practice for 20 years are usually less skilled than they were fresh out of medical school. These older doctors are stuck in habitual ways of thinking and acting, and haven’t updated their models or approaches for years. Rather than having 20 years of experience, they often have 1 year of experience repeated 20 times.

You earn your confidence through intentional action toward meaningful goals. You can only borrow so much confidence from the distant past.

By seeing your Future Self as a different person, you appreciate that this person sees things differently than you do now. They care about different things than you do now. They’d act differently than you would now.