Recently a start-up social marketing Silicon Valley executive was quoted as saying "If you are comfortable when you launch your site you waited too late." In other words, if one felt comfortable then this secure, comfortable feeling was an indication that one had fallen behind the innovation curve, a detriment to success. The implication was that innovation is inherently a tenuous and uncertain thing and that making it into a 'comfort' thing is very bad strategy.

To what extent should we allow instructions and rules to govern our lives? Is it necessary in our best interest to follow them? What are the potential benefits of moving away from them sometimes? Should we always learn how to overcome obstacles or is there a better way? Read on to find out.

"Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don't believe is right."

"Soar, eat ether, see what has never been seen; depart, be lost, but climb."

"He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh."