“No one cares about your excuses as much as you do. In fact, no one cares about your excuses at all, except you."

How to change the world

All successful cultural change (books, movies, public health), has a super-simple two-step loop:

Editor’s Note:  If you don’t have Netflix, there’s plenty out there online regarding this 90 minute interview of psychiatrist Phil Stutz by his client, Jonah Hill.  I’ve watched it twice and plan to watch it at least one more time.  Hill’s concept is to turn the tables on his shrink in order to share with the audience a few tools Stutz taught him over five years of therapy after Hill’s brother died suddenly.  The intensity of their vulnerability is nicely offset by their humor.

What books changed how you think?  The list below is a small but significant sample of the ones that have changed mine.

For me, quotes are collections of words that make me think.  Whether famous or just from friends and family, my favorites cause behavior changes.  Below are from the less famous.