Motivation
You Can’t Make Things Better By Making Things Worse
Encountering The Unexpected Doesn’t Automatically Translate Into Failure
“Things work out best for those who make the best of how things work out.” — John Wooden
Can you fight a fire by throwing gasoline on it?
Didn’t think so.
Can you make a situation better by making it worse?
Again, didn’t think so.
But it’s truly amazing how many people will reach for the gasoline when things don’t go the way they expected. The world was somehow supposed to bend to their vision of things when they set sail into uncharted waters.
If there’s any human talent that is truly universal, it’s the ability to make things worse.
There isn’t a single situation or scenario you can think that is so horrifying, so terrible, so damn awful, that you still wouldn’t be able to find a way to screw it up further.
So what about the opposite direction? Is it possible to take a situation of any negative gravity and make something good out of it?
