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[ View the infographic! ] “Everyone should wear nametags, all the time, everywhere, forever.” That’s my thesis, philosophy, dangerous idea and theory of the universe. My name is Scott, and I’ve been wearing a nametag for past four thousand days. And after traveling to hundreds of cities, a dozen countries, four continents, meeting tens of thousands of people, constant experimentation and observation, building a enterprise and writing a dozen…

It costs nothing to encourage. It’s gift we can give to anyone, anytime, anywhere, and change them forever. And it’s our responsibility to be dispensaries of encouragement to everyone we meet. Let us give people permission to do something great. Let us throw people over the other side of the wall. Let us provide the spark that grows into an inferno. Let us take people’s hands and push them…

There’s nothing harder than making a decision. Decisions mean commitment, and every commitment has consequences. But even though we’d rather dwindle indecisively for an eternity, artfully creating excuses why something won’t work, persistently telling ourselves stories about why we wouldn’t deserve it if it did work, eventually, we have to decide. We have to set a drop-dead date, cut the ropes and run. Otherwise we waste our time trying…

It’s tempting to covet other people’s careers. Especially when we see them doing things we’d like to be doing. But the reality is, we can’t have another person’s career any more that we can have another person’s hair. Their history, their trajectory and their motivations are theirs and theirs alone. Even if we did try to copy their path and plug our variables into their equations, we’d still come…

People come in and out of our lives everyday. Some stick around a few minutes, some stick around forever. And what’s amazing is how much they can impact our life, even if they’re only part of it for a short while. Strangers on the bus, neighbors down the street, roommates for a semester, lovers over the summer, guests at a hotel – when we meet someone we like, someone…

[ View the infographic! ] “Everyone should wear nametags, all the time, everywhere, forever.” That’s my thesis, philosophy, dangerous idea and theory of the universe. My name is Scott, and I’ve been wearing a nametag for past four thousand days. And after traveling to hundreds of cities, a dozen countries, four continents, meeting tens of thousands of people, constant experimentation and observation, building a enterprise and writing a dozen…

It’s not enough to just be amicable strangers. I want to be friends with everyone, all the time, everywhere, forever. That’s just me. I don’t have to warm up to people. I don’t have to get to know someone before we connect. I don’t have to wait until we’ve hung out six times before I start opening up. I just jump right in. I reveal myself quickly, openly, honestly…

We have all the ideas we can handle. We have all the support we can get. We have all the tools we can use. That’s not the problem. What we lack is the initiative. The capacity to execute. The willingness to stand naked before the world and give it our best shot, even if we fall flat on our face. What we lack is the will to make the…

How do we balance it all? It’s not just productivity, creating environments free from distraction that open up our capacity to start and finish what matters. It’s not just structure, building regiment and blank time into our schedule that allow us to alternate between focus and freestyle. It’s not just energy, expanding our physical, mental, emotional and spiritual bandwidth so we can support the exertion life requires. It’s not…

Saying goodbye is always sad. Then again, it’s not as sad as having nobody to say goodbye to. And so, during times of transition, we have to give thanks before we say goodbye. Because if we were lucky enough to have amazing people in our lives, they deserve to have their names put up in lights before we move on to the next chapter. To those who believed in…