1. ON KEEPING YOUR WORD

When I walked into my dad’s business at age fourteen, I was a bit of a bullsh*t artist. I would not be where I am without my dad’s correction of that. When you make a commitment, no matter what, you stick to it.

2. ON FALLING IN LOVE

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In her passionate and painful life, the confluence of the Enlightenment in Romanticism became a real bloody battle as evidenced by one of his letters: "I am a real animal and instinctive emotions too often silence the suggestions of reason ... aware that life is just a game, often just a nightmar...

• Most of us learn to base our self-worth on comparisons and competition. We think about succeeding in terms of someone else failing—if I win, you lose; or if you win, I lose. Life becomes a zero-sum game. We all play the game, but how much fun is it really?

• Win-win sees life as a