Slow motion makes every foul look deliberate. Quit replaying your own mistakes at that speed.

REFLECTION

WHAT THIS MEANS

Played back slowly enough, any accident looks like a decision. Stretch half a second out and you can watch a choice that was never actually made, which is precisely what you do to yourself at two in the morning with a fumble or a sentence that came out wrong. Real time judged at slow-motion speed will convict you every time.

Take the lesson from a mistake once, at normal speed, and write the single thing you would do differently. Then stop the tape. If it starts up again, tell yourself the note has already been taken.

A QUESTION TO SIT WITH

Which mistake do you keep rewinding frame by frame at night?

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