JORDAN RAYNOR

• Focus your skills and innovative capacity on addressing tangible, unmet needs in society and people's everyday lives.
• Avoid the temptation to be seduced by vanity metrics like money or fame.
• Long-term significance requires creating things that provide true value to human be...

Creation in its myriad forms is fundamental to human identity, meaning, and wellbeing. We are designed to find fulfillment through building, innovating, dreaming, and adding value to the world around us.

Our souls come alive when we create. While creating for creation's sake is beautiful, ...

• While holding the vision for your long-term purpose and potential impact, begin by humbly serving just one person's problem.
• Meet tangible needs on a human scale, even if small. Iterate, learn and expand your impact by taking it step-by-step.
• Allow your solutions to grow or...

Define and rigorously track success metrics based on the core value you provide and real problems solved rather than vanity numbers.

Assess your genuine cultural impact, not just surface-level reach and scale.

Are lives fundamentally better? Progress against a scoreboard that ca...

True influence comes not from demanding it but from empowering others through service.

Lead by bringing out the best in people and helping them develop as human beings with dignity. Remain grounded by listening compassionately. Avoid ego and self-importance.

Cultivate a beginner's mindset of curiosity, presence, and willingness to explore. Let go of assumptions and embrace uncertainty. Be open and creative, unburdened by preconceived constraints.

Maintain the mindset of a learner to fuel disruptive innovation long after early success. ...