Eric Zimmer

Because we're describing here a high level of emotional maturity and regulation where you always pause.

You're always able to stop doing the difficult thing.

And for many, many people, that's not the case.

But just even if that happens, there's still room for

for repair.

There's still room for reflection and there's still room to change our position to use your terminology.

Exactly.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I mean, and there's no task that I have found in my life that more frequently pushed me up against my limits of what I was able to handle than being a parent, right?

I was like, this task just seems like it was designed to make me fail.

You know, I think good parents are able to go in and say, I made a mistake.

I didn't handle that right.

Because A, it repairs the relationship.

But to your point, even more importantly, it models like, okay, I'm not always right.

I make mistakes.

And when I do, here's how I handle it.

Because you're going to make a ton of them too.

Yep.

What are some ways of working with the inertia default?