We need to accept that we won't always make the right decisions, that we'll screw up royally sometimes - understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it's part of success.
In a culture fueled by burnout, a culture that has run itself down, our national resilience becomes compromised. And when our collective immune system is weakened, we become more susceptible to viruses that are part of every culture because they're part of human nature - fear-mongering, scapegoating, conspiracy theories, and demagoguery.
Fearlessness is like a muscle. I know from my own life that the more I exercise it the more natural it becomes to not let my fears run me.
We take better care of our smartphones than we do of ourselves - the phones are always recharged!
But you have to do what you dream of doing even while you're afraid.
When we take care of ourselves, we are more effective, we are more creative, and we are more successful in a broad definition of the word.
The land of burnout is not a place I ever want to go back to.
It feels like we have two threads running through our lives: one pulling us into the world to achieve, the other pulling us back to replenish us. These threads can seem at odds, but really, they enforce each other. It's not a trade-off between success and sleep.
Liberation is an ever shifting horizon, a total ideology that can never fulfill its promises. It has the therapeutic quality of providing emotionally charged rituals of solidarity in hatred - it is the amphetamine of its believers.
The fastest way to break the cycle of perfectionism and become a fearless mother is to give up the idea of doing it perfectly - indeed to embrace uncertainty and imperfection.
The goal of any true resistance is to affect outcomes, not just to vent. And the only way to affect outcomes and thrive in our lives is to find the eye in the hurricane and act from that place of inner strength.
I think while all mothers deal with feelings of guilt, working mothers are plagued by guilt on steroids!
The most important thing that we entrepreneurs have is our human capital. If we exhaust it, we make bad decisions.
Our current obsession with creativity is the result of our continued striving for immortality in an era when most people no longer believe in an after-life.
Trying to be Supermom is as futile as trying to be Perfect Mom. Not going to happen.
Increasingly, staying in the middle class - let alone aspiring to become middle class - is becoming a game of chance.
I've always been fascinated by dreams - mine are so vivid. I went through a period in my 20s when I wrote down my dreams every morning. Then life intervened, and I stopped doing it.
Mainstream media tend to just mouth the conventional wisdom, to see everything through the filter of right and left.
There's something sacred in all of us that we need to protect, and sleep is a way to connect with it, nourish it, and make it more present in our lives.
There is nothing like becoming a mom to fill you with fear.
