Responding to credit you said actions were wrong and…

Responding to credit you said actions were wrong and what you should be done is obvious. Every job looks easy when you’re not the one doing it. Because the challenge is faced by someone in the arena are often invisible to those in the crowd.

— from Failure & Resilience (Challenge/Failure/Perseverance/Accountability/Flexibility/Resilience) · The Psychology of Money By Morgan Housel

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And measure a life rightly, as Booker T. Washington did — not by the position you reach but by the obstacles you overcame getting there — remembering that the difficulties faced by the one in the arena are largely invisible to the crowd that critiques him, that the crucible, whatever its form, is what forges the strongest into who they become, and that many an ordinary person has found the strength to bear stark adversity, far more often than the frightened mind believes. For the deepest wisdom comes only from the falls themselves: adversity distorts reality in the moment but crystallizes the truth of what matters; loss amplifies the value of all that remains; and it is always easier to build a new dream than to cling to a broken one. — Failure & Resilience (Challenge/Failure/Perseverance/Accountability/Flexibility/Resilience)

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