Dealing with Screwups | Ep. 26

Anguish. What’s it good for? A bold life is going to have a few run-ins with misfortune. Imagine it like the first day of summer vacation, when you run to the beach, white as a ghost and then decide to stay in the sun for far too long, you’re going to get a few burns.

What’s the point to Anguish over it?

Heal.

Get back up and go out it again. Repeated exposure won’t break you, like a healthy glow of a suntan, or a lithe and powerful batch of scar tissue beneath a well toned muscle… Take it.

Don’t simply endure it, drink it up, like it’s the blood of some magical creature that will bestow all powerful ability and wisdom upon you.

Hallelujah. You screwed up. Sweet. You miss calculated. Great.

It’s time to make a pivot and try again? Excellent.

Every screwup is getting you closer to what you were truly meant for. This doesn’t mean you go down cursed to misfortune with some masochistic optimism Like Voltaire’s Candide, but that you gain wisdom and clarity through the process that will better position you to crack the approach on your next go.

So you tried to launch a rocket to space… And it exploded into 100,000 chunks of metal 10 m off the ground. Launch another one. Keep rotating the puzzle in your hands and smile at the great fortune you have to be able to swing the bat.

Don’t wish you were over this part already. Because if you skip this part, you’ll never know what strength you’ll pass on.

Be present here and you’ll find out the clues to the next level. While you’re here on this level get a high score experience all you can make as many screw ups as possible, crash into every barrier.

Now - Be grateful that your screwup‘s are reversible.

Imagine the torment that a general on the battlefield might be burdened with when he makes a screw up.

Imagine the same general to be the Roman general responsible to drive Hannibal out of Italy.

Every battle resulted in another loss.

Every time the general would send troops to Hannibal’s forces they would be met with utter defeat.

Again and again, the general would have to bear the burden of the lives of countless good soldiers.

But the general would resolutely lick his wounds, rally forward again until Hannibal’s army slowly whittled away and one day had no more foothold on Italy and Hannibal’s Carthage was finally forced to surrender.

And so today might be a screwup for you, today you might be forced to take a retreat, to feel the heavy blow of defeat.

Good. That’s a signal that you’re taking risks. That’s a signal you’re fighting for a change.

Try again. Launch another rocket.

I know you have one more shot left.

And when that one’s fired you got two more.

Give it your all.

Rise up and celebrate the scars on your fists.

Today’s the day you become stronger than defeat.