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“What happens with a lot of people like myself is you enter the work world naive. Nobody tells you anything about these are the rules. This is how people can be so tricky and political. They have these egos that if you say the wrong thing or you step on their foot in some way, you’re going to pay a price. Your parents don’t tell you these stories. College professors for God’s sake don’t tell you these stories. The people—your bosses—never want to talk about this. Nobody wants to talk about it.”

“Everything people do is a sign. So if they’re showing up late at meetings or they’re not returning your phone calls, it’s not some innocent event. It means something. It’s coming from someplace within them. Their desk is a mess—it’s a sign. A real smile lights up the whole face. A fake smile is tight. Every little thing that people do is a sign. You're not paranoid—it's decoding. People wear masks.”

“You have to learn a little bit about their game. You have to play a little bit of hardball back at them. And you have to do it better, because what’s wrong with a lot of villains is they’re actually not as smart as you think. They’re operating on emotion... If you can be strategic, then you have the upper hand. The problem is most people are tactical—they just react. Tactical hell. If you can lift your head out of the moment and think a few steps ahead... the game becomes yours.”

“Nobody is ever totally authentic. That person that you think is so authentic is actually creating the effect of authenticity. They know how to act like that. But they're not saying or doing exactly what's going on in their mind. From a very early age, we’re learning to play a part—how to please people, how to make them like us, how to say the right things. The person that seems to be authentic is actually playing that part of being authentic.”

“You want to trust these feelings. They’re very valuable. We are animals. We think we’re so intellectual… but inside, we operate on emotions, instincts, sensations. A nonverbal form of communication. It comes out in how people move, how they stand. If someone’s feet are pointed away from you, they don’t want to be there. Their voice, the undertones in an email—it’s all data. But to perceive it, you have to shut off your own mind.”

“Before I had my stroke, I could hike, I could swim—get out of my head. Now I can’t. So I have to sit down and remind myself: This is a privilege. Let’s feel what you’re trying to write. Let’s not be intellectual. Let’s feel it first, and then write it. I have to force myself to be inspired—literally. But when life turns against you, you have to change. And that makes you grow. And that’s what I’ve had to do.”

“Despite all the horrible things going on in the world, it’s actually insane that we humans are at this moment in history. That we’ve gone from whatever we were 30,000 years ago to all this power. We are insane animals. This consciousness is an unbelievable gift. But we’re not aware of it. We take it all for granted. I want readers to open their eyes and realize how sublime it is to just be.”

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