Discovering breakthrough ideas is challenging, not because they’re hidden secrets, but because we’re conditioned to notice the familiar, while overlooking what might be.

Happiness is about understanding that the gift of life should be honored every day by offering your gifts to the world.

Many of us consider these pattern-breaking ideas impossible or unthinkable — at first. Ironically, the experts we respect most are often the least able to see the potential for a break from the past. Often it is the outsider, unburdened by the past, who becomes the pattern-breaking person behind a pattern-breaking idea.