By Charlie Gilkey
It’s natural to lean on proving people wrong as a motivation to show up and do the work.
They always said you couldn’t do it.
They always said it couldn’t be done.
They always said you were naive.
You’ll show them. You’ll do it.
This makes the world your enemy. This makes everything hard. No matter what you do, there’s another thing you need to do to prove them wrong. They said you were small, after all. You’ll show them.
What about all the people who said you could do it?
The people who always saw more in you than you ever saw in yourself.
The ones who caught you when you fell and steered you straight when you were lost.
The ones who reminded you, to paraphrase Marianne Williamson, that what you were really scared of was... More...
