Avoid boring people (double entendre)

Any forecast that accurately anticipates the impact of incentives on behaviour is likely to be broadly correct

Your long term plans… What is preventing you from achieving them this week

The two reasons we don’t explore the possible are failure of nerve and failure of imagination

Arthur C Clarke 
Failure of nerve seems to be the more common…

Don’t ever put yourself in the position to wish you could hop in a time machine,

Ray Allen

https://www.theplayerstribune.com/ray-allen-letter-to-my-younger-self/

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“Don’t wait for your ship to come… swim out to it!” – ???

Care personally. Challenge directly. The other person decides where you land on the axis