What do you attribute the biggest successes in your life to? Perseverance, the ability to play the long game, and spurts of boldness, besides the grace of God. -Matthew Peterson, founding editor of The American Mind To me, outsized success is simply not possible without risk. Trouble will find you: don't try to hide. Life is challenges: create some good ones to strengthen yourself against the bad. The life we have been given is not a "safe space," yet we need and want spaces of safety: building them, even conceiving of them and understanding what they really are, requires risk. But not just any risk in all these cases, and not strictly on your own. The risk of taking on risk with others is the big one you need. When a culture breeds a people who have lost the capability to know what risk is and why it is needed, individually and together, collapse is around the corner.
Mini-Feature: Attributing Success
Mini-Feature: Attributing Success
Mini-Feature: Attributing Success
What do you attribute the biggest successes in your life to? Perseverance, the ability to play the long game, and spurts of boldness, besides the grace of God. -Matthew Peterson, founding editor of The American Mind To me, outsized success is simply not possible without risk. Trouble will find you: don't try to hide. Life is challenges: create some good ones to strengthen yourself against the bad. The life we have been given is not a "safe space," yet we need and want spaces of safety: building them, even conceiving of them and understanding what they really are, requires risk. But not just any risk in all these cases, and not strictly on your own. The risk of taking on risk with others is the big one you need. When a culture breeds a people who have lost the capability to know what risk is and why it is needed, individually and together, collapse is around the corner.