We understand the frequency, the cycle, of that restoration activity with sleep. And I realized it is the same with some of these other things.

It's like saying, you know what? My life is crazy right now, so I'm not gonna sleep for five days, but then I have a two-day window where I'm just gonna sleep the whole time for two days, 48 hours, done, catch up.

Some part of my brain understands that taking a two-week vacation in the Bahamas or whatever, some sunny, beautiful place, isn't going to make up for the things that are massively missing in my life.

It helped me realize that so many of the details of my life...I'd advocated and I'd gotten creative about how to get them in my life.

Don't just think of work things, think of any activity that makes you feel pumped. Or your version of pumped.

In case restorative and growth don't really fit how your brain thinks of those two states, I encourage you to come up with your own words.

Psychologists kind of think about it as growth versus restorative states. I call it progress and self-care.

There's a lot of neuroscientists that essentially think of symmetry as these two things...dopamine and endorphins...and then on the other side...serotonin and oxytocin.

But here's the weird thing. It's 100 years later. Most of us here have pretty different workplaces, right? And we're still using the 40/60 [working/free hours per week].

Anyone know how many hours a week on average we work in the U.S.? It's 47. 47 is the average.

Chasing dreams may force you to make some very difficult decisions. It means taking risks, stepping outside your comfort zone, doing tough things to make you grow.

When I get out in the world and I’m giving talks to zoos and aquariums and science centers who are not, who don’t think of the arts as their main thing, I get to teach them that you know why this works? Because art is an important language and you have to know how to use it.

...we are seduced by the beauty and color and wonderful things that we can get in plastic.

I’ve always liked to do art that people can touch, that isn’t precious.

We are doing it to educate a global audience about plastic pollution specifically in the ocean (it's now considered one ocean, by the way).

If you’re finding yourself being impatient, it’s a really good time for you to reassess, go through what you’re doing with a fine-tooth comb, and figure out what’s working, what’s not. Experiment and start over.

You create consistency through incremental action every single day, consistently.

You do not have to become fearless to kill fear.

Like water everything flows and changes.

It's not easy going through that much change, and flow.

This kind of system of approaching mystery with the scientific method, creating more mystery with the scientific method and helping mysterious things take form with the scientific method is what takes humanity forward.

Science is highly creative.

Science is not a belief system.

It’s funny how we teach our kids to share when we as adults tend to often not do that very much.

We’re all kind of greedy.