![]() ![]() Shame drives two big tapes – “never good enough” and, if you can talk it out of that one, “who do you think you are?” The thing to understand about shame is it’s not guilt. I know your dad never paid attention, even when you made CFO.” Shame is that thing.Īnd if we can quiet it down and walk in and say, “I’m going to do this,” we look up and the critic that we see pointing and laughing, 99 percent of the time is who? Us. I know you don’t think that you’re pretty enough or smart enough or talented enough or powerful enough. I know those things that happened to you growing up. I know your dad really wasn’t in Luxembourg, he was in Sing Sing. When you walk up to that arena and you put your hand on the door, and you think, “I’m going in and I’m going to try this,” shame is the gremlin who says, “Uh, uh. …That’s what life is about, about daring greatly, about being in the arena. But when he’s in the arena, at best he wins, and at worst he loses, but when he fails, when he loses, he does so daring greatly.” The credit goes to the man in the arena whose face is marred with dust and blood and sweat. ![]() ![]() It is not the man who sits and points out how the doer of deeds could have done things better and how he falls and stumbles. There’s a great quote that saved me this past year by Theodore Roosevelt… a nd it goes like this: “It is not the critic who counts. ![]()
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