Peter D. Kaufman

These ideas are simple enough to understand immediately and practical enough to apply today and every day.

And that's not a weakness.

That's the highest form of thinking.

Peter grounds all of this in a stark reality.

You have one lifetime.

It's finite and it matters.

And when something is both finite and important, opportunity costs must govern your decisions.

Choosing option A means not choosing option B, C, D, or E. You have to pick carefully.

So how do you want to spend your life?

Peter's observation, most people spend it fighting with everybody around them.

He's just explained how to avoid that.

And in exchange, you get a celebratory life instead of an antagonistic fighting one.

He cites an African proverb, if you want to go quickly, go alone.

If you want to go far, go together.

So his advice, live your life to go far together.

Don't live it to go quickly alone.

The alternative is becoming Ebenezer Scrooge and reaching the end of your life with wealth, power, fame, but wanting a do-over because you realize at the end of your life, I didn't live my life right.

I don't have what really matters.

And so the question is what really matters?

And to Peter, it's to have people pay attention to you, listen to you, respect you, show you that you matter and to love you and have it be genuine.