6/26/2023 0 Comments Man in the arena brene brown![]() ![]() Had this man ever put his own money on the line? Ever risked a nickel of his own money? I knew the answer to that question. He shook my hand and said “You have a very interesting reputation.” And I smiled, we chatted, but inside, I was back on my heels. ![]() Once, not very long ago, I met someone who had heard I’d failed. ![]() “If you are not in the arena and getting your arse kicked, I am not interested in your feedback.” – Brené Brown The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood who strives valiantly who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming but who does actually strive to do the deeds who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions who spends himself in a worthy cause who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.” – Teddy Roosevelt, 1910 “It is not the critic who counts not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. ![]()
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