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Most people experience neither victory nor defeat.

Why?

Well, rather than step out their front door and shape their world and the reality,

most people sit back and they observe,

and they criticize and they condemn those who actually do.

This is the central premise to Teddy Roosevelt's man in the arena speech,

which I've talked about and explored a few times on this podcast,

but I had the pleasure last week of sort of rediscovering it in Sedona.

And what stood out to me particularly was just the idea of how okay we are with that middle ground,

of giving up the highs to not experience the lows, how okay we are with being the ones who merely observe and critique

while life around us is shaped.

It's like, no defeat, no, that's avoided at all costs.

We want safety, safety, safety, which means almost definitionally no victory.

And when we skip those two things, what we are left with is empty space, a perpetual

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