Reboot: Leadership and the Art of Growing Up

the higher up the pole the monkey climbs, the more his ass shows.”

“I am not what has happened to me,” taught Carl Jung. “I am what I choose to become.”

the old seen-but-not-seen feelings remain.

Our lives are twenty-four frames per second, with each frame a set piece of feeling, belief, obsession about the past, and anxiety about the future. Neither good nor bad, these frames form us.

elevate the darkness to the realm of the stars

“not the story of the wreck but the wreck itself.”

I loved surprising people with what I was capable of doing.

I’d feel seen not for being good—quiet, compliant, a “good boy”—but for being me—a good person who was also smart and skillful.

“Take your seat.” “Sit like royalty in your leadership seat,” I say. “Sit as if you’ve the right to be there.”