The difference your mood makes

The difference your mood makes. All of this makes mood the most important key to achieving and exercising power. Good ideas matter, but mood is the key to executing our ideas better. Talent and experience matter, but mood unlocks the potential at talent and experience provide.

— from Fuel (Energy)

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You cannot navigate wisely, you cannot love well, and you certainly cannot lead others when your own reserves are gone — which is why the best leaders understand themselves to be, above all, the stewards of the energy around them, their own and their people's. Your mood, which is simply the readout of your energy state, turns out to be the single most important key to whether you can actually use the good ideas you have. A brilliant plan flown on a dead battery never leaves the ground. — Fuel (Energy)

The thing looms enormous only because you are staring at it; widen the lens to a whole life and most of today's catastrophe shrinks to a footnote. Mood and company. Mood is the master key — good ideas matter, but it is your mood that decides whether you execute them well or badly. And mood is mostly input. The most powerful input is the people around you; you become something close to the average of the five people you spend the most time with. — The Heart in the Cockpit (Emotion/Awe/Anxiety/Regret/Empathy)

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