We assume stress comes from the size of the job. It doesn't — it comes from how much thinking is running while you do the job. Same role, same demands, radically different levels of stress, depending only on what's happening in someone's head.

Two leaders can carry the exact same workload — one burns out, the other doesn't. The difference was never the hours. It's how much of their thinking was spent resisting the hours instead of simply doing the work in front of them.

More rehearsal doesn't make you sound more in control — it makes you sound like you're reading from a script instead of thinking. The leaders who sound biggest in the room are usually the least prepared to sound scripted.

I’m pointing to universal laws that govern how we operate as human beings.