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Go forth. Think. Save the world.

It is the ultimate luxury to combine passion and contribution. It's also a very clear path to happiness.

All work and no imagination will most definitely make you an under-performer. Do you have the imagination to see yourself doing something truly exceptional?

Whatever you end up doing in this life, make sure above all that it's interesting. Because most likely you're going to spend a third of the rest of your life working for a living. And if what you do bores you, that means you're going to spend a third of the rest of your life being bored.

The world is hungry for professionalism. If you're professional and they're not — if you show up on time every morning and get the job done and they show up two hours later spouting clever excuses — then nine times out of ten, you will win and they will lose.

You get to make your own luck. Eighty percent of success in your career will come from just showing up. The world is run by those who show up — not those who wait to be asked.

It's your curiosity and enthusiasm that will get you noticed and make your life interesting — not your grade point average.

No one ever sets out to fail. But being afraid to fail means you'll be afraid to try. Playing it safe will get you nowhere.

Hard work does not always pay off. If you're working on the wrong thing, it doesn't matter how hard you work, nothing will ever come of it. Hard work is important — just make sure you're working on the right thing.

Life will happen to you, whether you try to guide it or not, so you might as well try to influence the outcome. You have to know what you want and you have to be willing to go after it.

Happiness is love. Full stop. The surest way to measure whether a person is happy, healthy and well is to ask: How deeply is that person enmeshed in deep passionate commitments?

Creativity is not something you are, it's something you do. You have to work at it.