Everything looks like a failure in the middle..

This is probably a better substitute to the commonly known ‘it will be all right in the end, and if it is not all right then it is not the end yet’.

Success is a painful growth.

Just as there is duality in everything in life, there is a duality in growth. You get as much growth from handling the unknown, the chaos, the hardship, the inevitable failure as you get from auxiliary support, the kind and conscious conversations you have with others and yourself.

You want the challenge of not knowing how to do something, learning how to do it, mastering it, and then learning something new.

There is something magical that happens when you trust the work you do and when you recognise your excellence. You notice its tangible, unexpected, personal, and public demonstration.

The moderate stress that is caused by the breakthrough of facing the unknown releases neuro-chemicals, including oxytocin and adrenocorticotropin, that intensify people’s focus and strengthen social connections.

Those neuro-chemicals are a big motivator, they give people discretion how they do their work, let them choose which projects to work on, help focus their energies on what they care about most, and share information broadly and intentionally.

If you are not growing as a human being, your performance will suffer. Investing in the whole person has a powerful effect on engagement and retention, it taps into the natural human impulse to cooperate with others.

You and every person on your team is a learning machine.

Instead of letting the engines of your employees sit idle, crank them up: learn, leap, and repeat.

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