As a practice exercise, I'd usually just wear blindfolds around the house to allow my other senses to take me wherever I would like to go.
There is no shame in taking pride in achievements or position. But nobody gets to the top alone.
By my count, more business leaders have failed and derailed because of arrogance than any other character flaw.
Your past is not your potential.
Don't equate activity with efficiency. You are paying your key people to see the big picture. Don't let them get bogged down in a lot of meaningless meetings and paper shuffling. Announce a Friday afternoon off once in a while. Cancel a Monday morning meeting or two. Tell the cast of characters you'd like them to spend the amount of time normally spent preparing for attending the meeting at their desks, simply thinking about an original idea.
Expect to make some mistakes when you try new and different approaches. Sometimes colossal failures lead to spectacular successes.
Hard work often leads to success. No work seldom does.
The only time I feel at ease is swinging up and down in a coconut tree.
When you're finally up on the moon, looking back at the earth, all these differences and nationalistic traits are pretty well going to blend and you're going to get a concept that maybe this is really one world and why the hell can't we learn to live together like decent people?
In a gift economy, the more you give, the richer you are.
Sometimes the story takes you to places that you want to go and sometimes it takes you places you don't want to go.