Admitting What Is Obvious

Consider how many innovations that might have changed the world have been lost because someone was so focused on their goal, they missed the revelation right in front of them.

if you plan to spend some of your four thousand weeks doing what matters most to you, then at some point you’re just going to have to start doing it.

Most people have an acute sense of the challenges that lay ahead. They can predict the criticism they’ll face and the insecurity they’ll feel. This is why many, including me, refuse the “call to adventure” as long as possible. Before quitting my job, I spent several years critiquing the corporate world from within, convinced I could help “fix” it.