One day you’ll laugh about the failure that feels huge right now. Might as well start practicing.
LEADERSHIP
WHAT THIS MEANS
Distance changes the size of things. What is sitting on your chest now will one day be a short story you tell in under a minute, and that does not make it small today. The weight is real and it is also temporary, and both of those are true at the same time.
You do not have to force the laugh. Try telling one person the whole thing out loud and notice where it is already slightly funny. If none of it is yet, that is fine, and it can wait.
A QUESTION TO SIT WITH
Which of your failures from two years ago seems small now?
MORE IN AMBITION, SUCCESS & LEGACY
- The person bragging the loudest is often the least sure they deserve to be there. Real ones just keep working.
- Your dream job might not exist yet. Build the skills and be ready when somebody invents it, or invent it yourself.
- If the path you want doesn’t exist, you’re allowed to pave one. Every path was just grass at first.
Free, with nothing to buy inside it.