When a center of gravity is well defined in your life Then other things do not pull you off. If you can't let go of it, then it owns you That makes sense. I think part of this concept is calculus when it comes to calculating success and failure. There are some missions that cannot fail Because failure would be disastrous in many ways.
Want to be successful? You might need to get better at failing.
In this episode, Charles Lee (Stanford) and Andy Van Schaack (Vanderbilt) explore what it takes to be failure-resilient. In this Forum from October 2022 at Vanderbilt, they discuss success, failure, and how we might find a resilient self-worth.