Don’t be the smartest person in the room. Hangout with， and learn from， people smarter than yourself. Even better， find smart people who will disagree with you.
There is no doubt that in exchanging a self-centered for a selfless life we gain enormously in self-esteem. The vanity of the selfless, even those who practice utmost humility, is boundless.
It may be unfair, but what happens in a single day can change the course of a whole lifetime.
I write music to understand the world and myself better.
In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.
History is not the past—it is the method we have evolved of organizing our ignorance of the past.