Be disciplined and rigid in one area to facilitate more flexibility and tolerate more ambiguity in other regions. It will help you adapt more quickly.

We regularly find ourselves looking for answers. In a new situation, at an unforeseen problem, or at a recurring event where we are just not happy with our previous outcomes. In all these instances, you are not just looking for the best answer you can come up with but want to find the best answer anybody can come up with.

Eliminate decisions and eliminate activities that are not helping you. The decisions and activities that are holding you back.

Even if they don’t directly hinder you, they take up more mental capacity and time than they are worth.

Something, or somebody, has to go first to create a chain-reaction.

For an absolute beginner, any practice moves the needle in the right direction. You don’t need the best plan, the best coach, or the most advanced tools; you need to start.

The character of MacGyver is intelligent, can dismantle a bomb, speaks multiple languages, and is a very ingenious engineer. Above all, MacGyver was a non-violent problem solver.

I think both our grandma and mother were right. It would be best if you ate your veggies.