October 2019
Beginner
400 pages
7h 56m
English
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December 4Neither Good nor Bad
We should have a sense of mental as well as moral honor, which, while it makes us feel the baseness of uttering merely hasty and ignorant censure, will also forbid that hasty and extravagant praise which strict truth will not justify. A person of honor wishes to utter no word to which they cannot adhere.
Margaret Fuller—Life Without and Life Within (1859)
As an entrepreneur, you'll always find yourself riding a wave of mental perplexity.
You'll work to help the world understand that you've got the goods while simultaneously dealing with those in your life who want to believe you're that person you once were. If you've ever oared a canoe, it's kind of like that: a constant balance between forward momentum and tipping for no good reason.
The trick is to push aside both. Seek neither praise nor the words of those who fear your success. Do you and be proud of that. If praise comes, accept it gracefully, but then keep doing you. If criticism comes, accept it with the same grace but then keep doing you.
Think of neither as good nor bad. (Not easy, but the water is cold.)
Here's the truth: no one is capable of knowing you but you.
Today, see if you can go an hour or two without assigning any particular meaning to what you see and hear.
Challenge Question
- What is one critical view, event, or statement that you can release today?
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