Lisp is worth learning for the profound enlightenment experience you will have when you finally get it; that experience will make you a better programmer for the rest of your days, even if you never actually use Lisp itself a lot.
"The power of cinema is in its ability to make us see the world in a different way."
Appreciate everything your associates do for the business. Nothing else can quite substitute for a few well-chosen, well-timed, sincere words of praise. They're absolutely free and worth a fortune.
You may not be able to alter reality, but you can alter your attitude towards it, and this, paradoxically, alters reality.