Illustration via 99designs “It’s having the vision and then going there and making it happen with whatever dials I need to turn—creatively or business or political or financing—to get it done.” — David Maisel David Maisel (@maiseldavid) is the founder of Mythos Studios and the founding chairman of Marvel Studios. In 2003, David pitched...

Illustration via 99designs “You screw up your taxes, there’s a way out of it. You screw up your body, you might have a lifetime of pain.” — Eric Cressey Eric Cressey (@EricCressey), MA, CSCS, is president and co-founder of Cressey Sports Performance, with facilities in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, and Hudson, Massachusetts. He has...

This is a guest post from Rachel Nuwer (@RachelNuwer), an award-winning science journalist who regularly contributes to the New York Times, National Geographic, Scientific American, and many other publications. Her reporting for the New York Times broke the news globally about the MDMA Phase III clinical trial and was highlighted by me, Michael...

Illustration via 99designs “Question your truth.” — David Eagleman David Eagleman (@davideagleman) is a neuroscientist, New York Times bestselling author, TED speaker, and Guggenheim Fellow. He is the writer and presenter of the Emmy-nominated series The Brain on PBS, as well as the podcast Inner Cosmos with David Eagleman. In Palo...

Illustration via 99designs “I do not take no for an answer. And this is a message that I say to young people: ‘You should dare to do things. And no one has the right to say you cannot bring a new perspective into things.’ And so I always say, ‘Be daring and persevere.'” — Dr. Nora Volkow Nora D. Volkow, MD, is Director of the National...

Illustration via 99designs “It is entirely possible that you work in a place where you have no options. You have no agency. You have no significance. If that is actually true, you should quit, because you don’t get tomorrow over again. My guess: it is not actually true. My guess is you have more agency than you are prepared to embrace.” —...