The Importance of Space in Pursuing Success

When we're pursuing something, especially at a high level, the space between what we do and pursue and who we are in our sense of self becomes very, very constricted. The less space we have in there, then the more we are susceptible to the swings of emotion and affect and states that come with either succeeding or failure. When you fail, it's something that you care deeply about, even if it's just a finite game. If you quote unquote fail, even at the thing that you care a lot about, you don't spiral as much. And I think that this is where the role of self-compassion comes in. Compassion means to suffer with and self