The most damaging cognitive bias is overconfidence (illusory superiority), making leaders use their “gut” when they should be more rational.

Psychological pseudoscience dies hard, especially when there are commercial interests at stake.

We must be drawn by the idea of where we want to go more than we dislike the idea of all the work it is going to take to get there.

It's important to remember that peace, liberty and freedom changes many aspects in our thoughts as far as life is concerned.

Many of the cataclysmic leadership failures were failures of rationality. The pendulum of leadership development needs to swing back toward the rational: strategy, creativity, foresight, decision-making, and analytics.

Mindfulness requires being a beginner. Setting absurdly high-standards, and being unwilling to be a novice, are the joint enemies of personal progress and change. Nobody benchpresses 100 kilos the first time they enter a gym.