You are not what you do when you have the money. When you are relaxed, you have bandwidth, you hear people cheering for you. You are not what you do when you are on top, at your best, well-dressed. You are not what you do when you have all the options and no stake in the outcome.
You are you especially when there’s no choice. That’s where your true you is.
Those moments are precious.
As a person in a position of power (a parent, a manager, a politician) your role in a moment of crisis is to inspire tranquillity.
That’s how others around you can continue to think clearly and help everyone out of the crisis.
It is often so that things don’t just disappear.
They might move a little bit farther.
They might step away from the sun.
They might hide behind a bigger thing.
They might chase you for a while.
They might try on a new outfit.
But they will still be there and you will meet them again.
The only thing you can do is to train yourself to live with them, treat them as part of the landscape, learn to give them the appropriate perspective.
There’s nothing else.
Success, just like failure, can make you feel great or make you feel bad.
I imagine the difference is how proud you are of the effort you put in and how much you treated others according to your values while getting there.
And if you think about it, that makes the relevance of success or failure null.
Journey over destination.
Prejudice prevents you from seeing the world in its entirety. It forces you within some boundaries and it reinforces your perspective by limiting doubts.
When prejudice is taken a step further it becomes righteousness. That’s when you aim at keeping others within the same boundaries built your own prejudice, and you allow them only one possible version of the truth.
Prejudice and righteousness are human traits. That’s why it’s important to remind ourselves of how limiting they are.
You've got this 