Don’t just climb the ladder, chart a new path.
At the moment, our society’s notion of success is largely composed of two parts: money and power. But it’s time for a third metric, beyond money and power – one founded on well-being, wisdom, our ability to wonder, and to give back.
Failure is an integral part of life and that perfection is not of this world.
Happiness is dealing with setbacks with more grace, understanding and acceptance.
Arianna, your performance will actually improve if you can commit to not only working hard, but also unplugging, recharging and renewing yourself.
Ninety nine percent of the time it’s not urgent and to create a culture where you are constantly plugged in and expected to be always-on is to create a culture of burnout.
Money and power by themselves are a two-legged stool. You can balance on them for a while, but eventually you’re going to topple over.
Don’t miss the moment. It’s all we have.
Clearly drive, IQ, and hard work are incredibly important. But ultimately what matters most is resilience – the ability to quickly rebound from failures, indeed to see failure as a stepping stone to success.
You can do not just twice as much but 200 times as much when you have a good partner.
What preoccupies us is the way we define success. If you see your life purely in terms of money and power, then everything in your life becomes about ‘Am I getting ahead?’ and that is truly a barbaric way to live, because it eliminates huge chunks of our humanity.
Any time we have projects that we haven’t begun or completed, they drain energy.
Nothing is ever enough when what you are looking for isn’t what you really want.
The current male-dominated model of success – which equates success with burnout, sleep deprivation, and driving yourself into the ground – isn’t working for women, and it’s not working for men, either.
Not only is it harder to be a man, it is also harder to become one.
I’m much more creative when I’ve actually taken care of myself.
Today we often use deadlines – real and imaginary – to imprison ourselves.
Naysayers have little power over us – unless we give it to them.
The harder you try to suppress the truth, the more inevitable it is that it will find a way to come out.
The more we refuse to buy into our inner critics – and our external ones too – the easier it will get to have confidence in our choices, and to feel comfortable with who we are – as women and as mothers.