Good morning. Welcome to your world within daily. Today, we're going to talk about keeping your head

in the clouds and your feet on the ground, simultaneously managing the big picture and the small stuff.

Non-stop belief that things will work, that there's an answer, that you're ultimately

going to get there, and that you won't quit until you do, while also being brutally honest

with the facts on the floor, the reality around you.

A lot of times I think there's a tendency to conflate positivity

with a detachment from reality, but they're very different things. You need them both for success

to unfold. You need the big picture and you need the minutia, the steps, the little

things that add up over time. In the book, Good to Great, Jim Collins calls us the Stockdale

principle. Or Admiral Stockdale, I think at the time Commander Stockdale was shot down during Vietnam.

He was prisoner of war for over seven years in Vietnam, and it was just obviously a brutal

experience.

And, you know, one of the things that helped him survive was being painfully pragmatic

while also knowing in his soul, right, with every ounce of his being that he would ultimately

get out, that the men he cared about and helped so much would ultimately get out.

And so when Jim Collins is interviewing him, you know, he says, Admiral Stockdale, what differentiated

the ones that made it and the ones that didn't?

And the answer is incredibly surprising.

He says optimism.

Because the people that were overly optimistic said, we'll get out by Christmas.

And Christmas comes, and they don't get out.

And then they say, okay, we'll find we'll be out.

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