What are the most important life lessons

1. Laugh in the places you’ve cried. Change the narrative.

2. Stop comparing yourself to strangers on the internet.

3. In a world where everyone wears a mask, it’s a privilege to see a soul.

4. Faces are never ugly or beautiful, minds are.

5. Your energy is currency. Spend it well. Invest it wisely.

6. Never get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life.

7. It’s okay to disconnect from everyone to connect back to yourself.

8. You can become happy just by deciding to be happy.

Ten imperatives to guide towards growth

1. Put competitive advantage first. Start with a winning, scalable formula.
2. Make the trend your friend. Prioritize profitable, fast-growing markets.
3. Don’t be a laggard. It’s not enough to go with the flow—you need to outgrow your peers.
4. Turbocharge your core. Focus on growth in your core industry—you can’t win without it.
5. Look beyond the core. Nurture growth in adjacent business areas.
6. Grow where you know. Focus on growing where you have an ownership advantage.
7. Be a local hero. Commit to winning on the home front.
8. Go global if you can beat local. Expand internationally if you have a transferable advantage.
9. Acquire programmatically. Combine healthy organic growth with serial acquisitions.
10. It’s OK to shrink to grow. Ruthlessly prune your portfolio if you need to.