Humor helps people open up.

Life is ambiguous; there are many right answers – all depending on what you are looking for. But if you think there’s only one right answer, then you’ll stop looking as soon as you find one.

It’s difficult to get your creative juices flowing if you’re always being practical, following rules, afraid to make mistakes, not looking into outside areas, or under the influence of any of the other mental locks.

Here’s my advice: Go ahead and be whacky. Get into a crazy frame of mind and ask what’s funny about what you’re doing.

Am I Getting Lazy? Am I Too Busy? Am I Becoming Arrogant? Am I Getting Timid? If you answer ‘yes’ to any one of these questions, that’s your warning to Kick that attitude!

There is a close relationship between the “ha-ha” of humor and the “aha!” of discovery.

We grow up thinking that the best answer is in someone else’s brain. Much of our education is an elaborate game of ‘guess what’s in the teacher’s head?’ What the world really needs to know right now is what kind of dreams and ideas are in your head.

It’s important for the explorer to be willing to be led astray.

Everyone has a ‘risk muscle.’ You keep it in shape by trying new things. If you don’t, it atrophies. Make a point of using it at least once a day.

Remember the two benefits of failure. First, if you do fail, you learn what doesn’t work; and second, the failure gives you the opportunity to try a new approach.