1. Read these books, and a couple more.

  2. Learn how to active listen (fully focus on understanding the speaker's complete message, including their words, tone, and body language, rather than just hearing them or formulating a response) 

  3. Love being in your own silence, the best ideas are formed there. 

  4. Love going for long walks, the best ideas are also formed there. 

  5. Work, play & collaborate with, psychiatrist artist Megan Poe. 

  6. Be curious about the world, human consciousness, language, art, business. 

  7. Look at all the aforementioned subjects from different standpoints. 

  8. Be born on a Thursday in March, time: midnight sneaking in. 

  9. Be the third of three siblings, where the oldest is non verbal — it will make you obsessed with language, verbal and non verbal.