What lessons can we take from this fresh understanding of denotation vs connotation?

One word that illustrates just how big the gap can get between denotation (literal meaning) and connotation (feelings and associations) is the word accountability.

How clear are you on the difference between a denotation and a connotation? I learned something yesterday that led me to a simple but profound realization.

“Don’t complain about results you didn’t get from work you didn’t do.” Have you heard that before? It’s a reminder that every result requires work.

You don’t know where you’re going when you run from something instead of to something. You know what you’re moving away from but not what you’re moving toward. That is a big problem. Bigger than you realize.

Run to things,not from things.

You're trying to get better at patience, discipline, empathy, listening. All those behavior skills that matter in life.

If you were wrong about something—anything—no matter how confident you were, how passionately you felt, or how certain you were that it would go differently, simply acknowledge it.

You feel the impulse. That urge to react. What do you do with it?