Nothing and no one can control you without your approval first.
A leader is someone who compels others to positive action by the power of their own positive action.
If you want to be incrementally better: Be competitive. If you want to be exponentially better: Be cooperative.
On Hallowe’en the thing you must do is pretend that nothing can frighten you. And if somethin’ scares you and you want to run, just let on like it’s Hallowe’en fun.
Socrates learned to dance when he was seventy because he felt that an essential part of himself had been neglected.