Initiative is a little like creativity in that both require curiosity. Not the search for the "right" answer, as much as an insatiable desire to understand how something works and how it might work better.

A Nine-Year-Old Kid Can Do Edgecraft While the edges always change, the process never does. Here's how you do it: Find a product or service that's completely unrelated to your industry. Figure out who's winning by being remarkable. Discover which edge they went to. Do that in your own industry.

In my former life I was in insider, as much as anybody else. And I knew what it's like, and I still know what it's like to be an insider. It's not bad.

Everyone has their own way of learning.

The Warrior listens to the words of certain thinkers.

Fiction offered me tools that allowed me to approach a wider variety of issues than the events of my own life would.

It is wonderful what a difference learning makes upon people even in the common intercourse of life, which does not appear to be much connected with it.

Books without the knowledge of life are useless.

Lawyers know life practically. A bookish man should always have them to converse with.

The bulk of mankind are schoolboys through life.

If you pursue enrichment and growth, you must increase your references by pursuing ideas and experiences that wouldn't be a part of your life if you didn't consciously seek them out.

Have you not learned the most in your life from those with whom you disagreed - those who saw it differently from you?