Sometimes the bravest move is walking away from a fight you could win.
RESILIENCE
WHAT THIS MEANS
Having the win within reach makes walking away harder, not easier, because leaving now looks like a choice you have to justify. Winning is not free either. There is a cost to the friendship, to the room, sometimes to you, and deciding the win is not worth its price is a judgement rather than a retreat. Not every fight on offer is yours to take.
The next time you can feel a small win coming, ask what it costs and what it changes. If both answers are thin, drop it and notice that nothing bad follows.
A QUESTION TO SIT WITH
Which argument could you win and still be better leaving?
MORE IN COURAGE & RISK
- You can risk being uncool or you can risk being cruel. Only one of those follows you around.
- Being the one who stays to help clean up after the event nobody wanted to plan takes a quiet kind of guts.
- The new rower in the boat has to trust seven strangers with every stroke. Joining anything is a trust fall.
Free, with nothing to buy inside it.