Ego is the enemy, ego sucks us down like gravity

• Ads on TV tell us what we need to spend money on to become acceptable, successful or lovable.
• Our educational system measures us using standard grades and test-scores, destroying our individuality.
• Parents love our accomplishments and subtly want us to push ourselves towar...

Parents, for many of us, are a complicated relationship. They can be a source of joy and can also feel like an emotionally draining ordeal.

Confronting them and making them understand how they hurt us is an ambitious option, which is rarely successful. While we may assume we can make them ...

is ambitious, risky, and requires an enormous amount of passion and tenacity. You are going to fail often. That doesn’t mean it isn’t possible to identify the things that could make your enterprise successful.