Quotes from PO BRONSON

I'm convinced that business success in the future starts with the question, What should I do with my life? Yes, that's right.... People don't succeed by migrating to a "hot" industry (one word: dotcom) or by adopting a particular career-guiding mantra (remember "horizontal careers"?). They thrive by focusing on the question of who they really are--and connecting that to work that they truly love (and, in so doing, unleashing a productive and creative power that they never imagined).

I used to want to change the world. Now I'm open to letting it change me.

Vulnerability is the only authentic state. Being vulnerable means being open, for wounding, but also for pleasure.

The biggest mistake we make is to think we have all the time in the world.

But I'd rather help than watch. I'd rather have a heart than a mind. I'd rather expose too much than too little. I'd rather say hello to strangers than be afraid of them. I would rather know all this about myself than have more money than I need. I'd rather have something to love than a way to impress you.

Children's emotional well-being and security are more affected by the relationship between the parents than by the direct relationship between the parent and child.

It's not easy. It's not supposed to be easy. Most people make mistakes. Most people have to learn the hardest lessons more than once.

I used to use business to make money. But I've learned that business is a tool. You can use it to support what you believe in.

As I get older, I've learned to listen to people rather than accuse them of things.

The moral is to not set yourself goals which don't leave you any freedom to maneuver.

All the studies point in the same direction: on average, children who sleep less are fatter than children who sleep more. This isn't just here, in America—scholars all around the world are considering it, because children everywhere are both getting fatter and getting less sleep.

every time I am about to follow my heart, I am offered enormous temptation.

The emphasis on winning is preventing kids from learning how to pass, which is the skill they ultimately need at the highest levels. The proposed solution is for top youth players to play fewer games.

Sanskrit describes five layers of self, or mind: Physical, feeling, perception, intention, and consciousness.

This variable, how a parent responds to a child's vocalizations—right in the moment—seems to be the most powerful mechanism pulling a child from babble to fluent speech.

Exactly why having more cognitive complexity makes a species live longer isn't totally decided by science yet. But the simplest answer is probably the best answer: The species is using its intelligence to survive. Smart animals figure things out. They solve problems and learn to avoid predators.

Some people are born into their passions. Some never get them and don't care. But I think if you're really struggling to find it - and I think you have, I mean, you've gone all over the country to find it - it's almost certainly for a reason. I think the depth of your struggling is the sign there's something there. Something in you that's trying to get out. People who don't have passions don't struggle.

From our deepest wounds come our greatest gifts.

You want to know where your fears are hiding? Tell me what you know about yourself. Tell me what you can't live without.

A calling is not something you know, it's something you grow into, through trials and mistakes... Attack your fears, rather than shy away from them. Bring what you do in alignment with who you are...Failure's hard, but success at the wrong thing can lock you in forever.

The insula is the heart of subjective emotional experience. It's the brain region where our perception of what's happening to us matters more than what's really happening to us. The

Breathing is key to accessing the unconscious neural code that controls us. "As the breath moves, so does the mind" is ancient Indian wisdom. We can add to that, "and the body.

I asked him if Buddhists believe we all get a specific destiny. "We don't think there's a specific place in your life to go. Everybody's destiny is to become an enlightened being and reach the everlasting state of mind.

We have mixed feelings about the seductive notion of destiny. There's a persistent tension between wanting our life's purpose to be revealed to us by some higher power and wanting to scrap and fight for it against all odds—to earn it without help. We think about destiny sort of like how we feel about inheritance—we covet its fruit but it's sweeter if we earned it ourselves.