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Find ways to balance your emotions. If you're going to lead people, you have to believe your message is important. At the same time, you need the humility to know that you're only one voice in a noisy world.

We must constantly balance EPR (Encourage, Praise, Recognize) with Challenge. EPR positive behaviors that you want to see repeated. Challenge is risky, and to do, you have to EPR even more.

We often say people quit because they were sensitive. What we need to do is own the fact that they quit because we don't know how to challenge and balance with EPR. The best leaders know that to raise standards you have to challenge people. In fact, challenging people is what lets them know that you believe in them.

Are you creating an environment that people perceive as consistent, safe, and a breeding ground for winners?

You're not in the business of changing people. You are in the business of changing people's lives. You do that by creating a culture that breeds winners.

The Genius in All of Us by David Shenk. This came up in response to a question about breaking through limit beliefs. A key theme is: Genius plus environment equals rate of success. This is why you, as a leader, have to keep creating the right environment.

Most people you work with have been discouraged much more than they were encouraged. This means you have to be patient. It takes thousands and thousands of positive affirmations (trips, discussions, book-of-the-month) to re-program a person with limiting beliefs and give them a chance at winning.

Freedom to travel. It almost seems normal again for people to fly from all over the world to The Vault or for me to hop on a plane to Madrid to interview Andrew Tate for the podcast. It was only a year ago that we lost these freedoms.

Remain in a place of gratitude. Take nothing for granted. Appreciate your freedom and fight the ideas and people who want to restrict it.