Top Highlights

• What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others. —Pericles
• People think that stories are shaped by people. In fact, it’s the other way around.
• One decision. One failure. Hard work. One success. My goal is to educate, not awe, you.
• Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead.
• The flow of this book is a combination of chronological and topical. It’s not purely chronological because acquiring wisdom isn’t a quick or linear process. The format for most of the book is a story followed by the wisdom it represents. I diverge from this