In our last couple +1s (here and here), we reviewed the formula for how to forge antifragile confidence and cultivate our emotional stamina.
I REPEAT for the THIRD day in a row…
The algorithm goes like this…
The WORSE we feel, the MORE COMMITTED we need to be to our protocol.
The parallel wisdom goes like this…
THE GREATER THE CHALLENGES WE FACE (individually and collectively), THE GREATER COMMITMENT we need to have to dominating our protocol (individually and collectively!).
And…
I ask yet again…
Have YOU quadrupled down and/or at least stepped up your game rather than let it all slip?
As we take that honest inventory and recommit to doing everything we can to show up as our best when the world needs it most, I think now’s an especially good time to remember the wisdom from one of our nation’s founding mothers.
During the challenging times when she and other Heroically wise, disciplined, loving, and courageous human beings were forging the democracy that would be a shining light for our world, Abigail Adams said…
“These are the hard times in which a genius would wish to live. Great necessities call forth great virtues. When a mind is raised and animated by scenes that engage the heart, then those qualities, which would otherwise lay dormant, wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman.”
I repeat…
“These are the hard times in which a genius would wish to live. Great necessities call forth great virtues. When a mind is raised and animated by scenes that engage the heart, then those qualities, which would otherwise lay dormant, wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman.”
Today’s the Day.
With Wisdom, Discipline, Love, and Courage I say…
Let’s go, Hero.
P.S. Abigail Adams wrote those words (as per ChatGPT’s response to my question about when she said that) “in a letter to her son, John Quincy Adams, on January 19, 1780. At the time, John Quincy Adams was a teenager traveling with his father, John Adams, to Europe during the American Revolution. Abigail wrote to encourage her son to embrace the challenges of the time and to develop his character through adversity. Her words reflected her belief that difficult circumstances were opportunities for personal growth and leadership.
John Quincy Adams would later go on to become the 6th President of the United States, embodying the ideals his mother encouraged.”
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