Draw your chair up close to the edge of the precipice and I will tell you a story".
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Choice A- When standing at the precipice and looking into the Abyss you take that leap,and hope you sprout wings on the way down. Odds are your going to crash and burn often, maybe more often than not.
"Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And when you look long into an Abyss, the Abyss also looks into you."
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Choice B- You wait for your ideas to grow wings before kicking them out of the nest, and while your waiting someone else is probably acting.
Choice C- Is the assumption that your are going to fail more than succeed so we learn to fail faster, and cheaper therefore winning becomes equally faster and cheaper, winning ,and winning more often.
So we learn to fail well get back out of the Abyss don't look it in the eye. Get back to the precipice, cause it's on the edge where your vision is the sharpest. ( Rinse and repeat as often as needed). Please don't confuse being on the edge, with sitting up high in the cheap seats watching the game.
You got to have some skin in the game, and it better be thick skin cause your going lose some on the way down. 2 more very important points. One Never, Never, Never, Ever bet the farm. That way when your work, project, idea, goes up in smoke you can dispassionately warm yourself by there dying embers, without choking on the smoke.
" Fire is the test of gold ; adversity of strong men ".
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Lastly when you win, and you will, don't do a dance at the goal post. Cause you will most surely lose again also. When this happens just dust yourself off tip your hat to the crowd. ( for they are bound to be in the cheap seats ). Stand tall walk out of the arena, and fix your eye on the precipice.
This is Papa Randy and I am
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