Top Highlights

• chance. Hard work is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning. Once it does, it becomes the kind of thing that makes you grab your wife around the waist and dance a jig.
• Those three things—autonomy, complexity, and a connection between effort and reward—are, most people agree, the three qualities that work has to have if it is to be satisfying.
• Hard work is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning. Once it does, it becomes the kind of thing that makes you grab your wife around the waist and dance a jig.
• if you work hard enough and assert yourself, and use your mind and imagination, you can shape the world to your desires.
• “just dumb enough to be fearless, just bright enough to be dangerous, and a dead shot”).