dopamine, one of the brain’s primary pleasure drugs. We feel dopamine as engagement, excitement, a desire to investigate and make meaning out of the … - Peter Diamandis

I measure success by one metric: Can we positively impact 1B+ people? Everything else is noise... Prizes, funds, communities, books—they're all just containers for scale.

But not every goal is the same. "We found that if you want the largest increase in motivation and productivity," says Latham, "then big goals lead to the best outcomes. Big goals significantly outperform small goals, medium-sized goals, and vague goals. It comes down to attention and persistence — which are two of the most important factors in determining performance. Big goals help focus attention, and they make us more persistent. The result is we're much more effective when we work, and much more willing to get up and try again when we fail.

More and more — as this, and so many of the discoveries discussed in this book illustrate — the once slow and passive process of natural selection is being transformed into one rapid and proactive: evolution by human direction. This means, over the next century, technological acceleration may do more than just disrupt industries and institutions, it may actually disrupt the progress of biologically based intelligence on Earth.