Produce as many ideas as possible. Try to produce unlikely ideas.

Try to be surprised by something every day.

Often we don't have a good notion of what our talents are, because we have never had a chance to try them out.

We cannot deny the facts of nature, but we should certainly try to improve on them.

I have a naive trust in the universe - that at some level it all makes sense, and we can get glimpses of that sense if we try.