Take responsibility

Take responsibility. When we go through hell, it’s human to look for someone to blame. The blame is useless. All that matters is how we respond.

— from Failure & Resilience (Challenge/Failure/Perseverance/Accountability/Flexibility/Resilience) · High Performance written by Jake Humphrey, Prof Damien’s Hughes

In the book

Fill that out and you get the whole portrait: tenacity when you have fallen short, the courage to continue despite real disappointment, the belief that you can and will do better if you put in the work, an openness to learning, and the plain stamina to persevere. The foundation under all of it is a single, freeing fact: the one thing in this world you always control is your response to adversity. When we go through hell, it is human to look for someone to blame — but blame is useless; all that finally matters is how you respond. There is a piece of you that no misfortune can ever reach — your thoughts, your mental tools, the way you choose to interpret your bad luck and your losses. […] Everyone who ever set a goal and acted on it has failed, and the avoiding of failure is just the avoiding of a real life. When it comes, do not waste your strength on blame, including blame of yourself — spend it all on your response, which is the only thing you ever truly hold. A person who takes responsibility can still admit that hard things simply happen; he just knows that the one lever he can always pull is how he answers them. — Failure & Resilience (Challenge/Failure/Perseverance/Accountability/Flexibility/Resilience)

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