challenge all assumptions
Page 612 challenge all assumptions. Perhaps the biggest tragedy in our lives is that freedom as possible, we pass our years trapped in the same old patterns. Often everything you want isa mere inch outside your comfort zone.
— from Failure & Resilience (Challenge/Failure/Perseverance/Accountability/Flexibility/Resilience) · Tools of Titans
In the book
The impatience to watch for is the one Rabbi Weinberg named: you want to be great, you just want it to happen in a single day, and on that day you want to sleep. So dare to begin at all, for as Kierkegaard warned, to dare is to lose your footing for a moment, but not to dare is to lose your very self — and most of what you truly want sits a mere inch outside your comfort zone, on the far side of assumptions you never thought to question. Forgive yourself the limits, too: your best really is enough, for you cannot have everything anyway — where would you even put it? — Failure & Resilience (Challenge/Failure/Perseverance/Accountability/Flexibility/Resilience)