What do you want to accomplish?

I want these messages to influence not only your discipline but also how you think — not what you think, but how you think. Because bad thinking is a big problem.

Do not try to avoid failure. Try to achieve excellence. The only failure to avoid is destruction and death. All other failures are just part of the process.

It should not be controversial to say:

“It is hard to believe our baby is all grown up and graduating. Raising you has been the joy of our lives. We want the best for you, but we know you must make your own path and live your own life. We do not want to give you too much advice, so we will keep this short and sweet:

It is better to aim at a high standard and come up short than to aim at a low standard and hit the mark.

Effort can substitute for talent.Persistence can substitute for precision.Ignorance can even substitute for experience.

You are here for a reason. You opened this email for a reason. You subscribed for a reason. You're reading each sentence for a reason.

There are two kinds of people in this world:

The action you avoid now is still necessary later. But avoiding the first opportunity to act tends to domino into avoiding future opportunities. Until you can no longer escape it. Then you must do at last what you could have done at first.