Entrepreneurs and doctors are similar in many ways.
One of those ways is the rate of burnout, and their response to it.
Both groups refuse to let burnout slow them down.
This means that to maintain performance people must dig deeper and deeper into mental, emotional, and spiritual reserves.
They drain themselves to their very core.
So recovery doesn’t just come from a holiday or a good night’s sleep.
It takes time.
The cup that is empty needs to be filled; kindly, slowly, with grace.
In arguments, we often want to be right. But being right is not the same as being wise.
One of the greatest lies we tell ourselves is that we’re falling behind. That someone else is ahead.
As a young man I associated strength with force; louder voices, sharper opinions, firm lines in the sand.
There’s a strange kind of pride we’ve developed in being exhausted. But even lions, the king of the jungle, rest.
I can't remember a time in my life when I didn't have ambition.
We sometimes believe strength means self-sufficiency — that being independent means being isolated.
We often try to outrun the storm, emotionally, physically, spiritually.
We’re entering an age where machines do our thinking before we’ve even had a chance to try.