By ourselves, I mean failure.
I mean that feeling in our gut that makes us face some truth.
The truth that our:
Assumptions might now be sharp enough.
Ideas aren’t strong enough.
Can’t-miss thing missed horribly.
So we avoid putting that stick in the ground.
However, when we hide – we miss the opportunity to find ourselves.
Worried that what we do isn’t good enough when we miss growth.
That is the end.
When we avoid failure, we prevent ourselves.
Then we lose.
We lose.
Worse still, sometimes you understand you’ve lost when there is more “time on the clock.”
I’ve heard in sports that you learn a lot about a team’s mental strength when time is running out on the clock.
They often say if they stay and play tough, then they are mentally strong.
I agree.
I also am going to veer a little left of conventional wisdom and say the team that quits is mentally strong as well. It takes guts to know there is nothing left to gain and to stop wasting time by keeping the game going.
Whatever you do, make sure you do so thorough.
Whenever you play yet want to quit or quit yet want to play, you aren’t learning anything.
You don’t learn anything because you’re focusing on doing everything, aka, the void of halfway. Instead of playing the game and giving your all or dedicating energy to leave in a positive way, you do both, and that makes for problems.
Nothing is free. The cost of playing both sides is twofold: unfocused playing prevents learning and continuing to play uses up energy.
Fact: when you play both sides, you’re wasting your time.
If you want to stay, stay.
If you want to quit, quit.
Don’t be half pregnant,here. The only person you hurt is yourself.
From the desk of Adam Thomas 