Your word is everything. Nobody makes referrals to someone who is "kind of reliable." Nobody makes introductions to someone who is "sometimes there."

If you are not able to do this, then all your other networking efforts amount to very little. For every lead in, two leads fall out.

There are speakers who use humor to deliberately get rid of their ego.

Criticizing oneself, badmouthing oneself, is something that, if done by the right person, can be very good.

It is no particular accomplishment to love someone who is on their best behavior.

What is needed for our attention is the love of what is crooked, damaged, and self-disgusted. Here love is the effort required to imagine oneself into the life of another person who has not m...