The most productive hour of your day often looks the laziest. Good ideas rarely come in meetings. Everything destroys relationships in love and careers like being needy. Average performance sustained for an above average period of time leads to extraordinary performance. What works wonders in one era might flop in the next as the world evolves.
If you can explain something important in just a few words, it's a double win: You've probably found something that's obviously true, without needing further explanation or detail. And it's probably something you'll remember for a long time, easy to recall without having to memorize dozens of details.
This podcast is a smattering of ideas that have been important and impactful to me, shared in as few words as I can manage.