Life is a continuous exercise in creative problem solving.
Over-seriousness is a warning sign for mediocrity and bureaucratic thinking. People who are seriously committed to mastery and high performance are secure enough to lighten up.
Brain researchers estimate that your unconscious data base outweighs the conscious on an order exceeding ten million to one. This data base is the source of you hidden, natural genius. In other words, a part of you is much smarter than you are.
Confusion is the welcome mat at the door of creativity.
A champion views resistance as a gift of energy.
Champions know that success is inevitable; that there is no such thing as failure, only feedback. They know that the best way to forecast the future is to create it.
... by stretching yourself beyond your perceived level of confidence you accelerate your development of competence.