- Highlights
- It is hard to overestimate the power of these motivators—the feelings of accomplishment and of learning, of being a key player on a team that is achieving something meaningful.
- what causes us to buy a product or service is that we actually hire products to do jobs for us.
- the path to happiness is about finding someone who you want to make happy, someone whose happiness is worth devoting yourself to.
- the extent to which I sacrifice myself to help her succeed and for her to be happy.
- But the nature of these activities—experiences in which they’re not deeply engaged and that don’t really challenge them to do hard things—denies our children the opportunity to develop the processes they’ll need to succeed in the future.
- self-esteem comes from achieving something important when it’s hard to
- self-esteem comes from achieving something important when it’s hard to do.