John Irwin
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 30 Jun
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She goes
Oh, I guess he was young once, wasn't he?
Like, and so nobody really thinks of that.
And so it was this chapter that, in my mind, was very much like Pride and Prejudice Meets the Revenant.
It was his first great adventures.
And he made this really big mistake.
I mean, it was not a small mistake.
It was a shot heard around the world that he was responsible for that started a global conflict.
And then he made this fort in the wrong place and got
Got his ass kicked in at the highest levels of failure.
Kickery.
And he went from colonel to nothing.
But then he self-assessed, he humbled himself, he owned his failure, and he became an aide-de-camp for Braddock, went back out into the frontier, and absolutely defined himself as the leader that he would become.
And so I just thought that chapter of How Are Myths Made was so interesting to me.
And I think so many of us
Have either f either failed in such a way that we think we can't recover or are so afraid of failure that we don't try that we don't realize that actually.
Few failures are fatal and failures shape great people much more than success.
And so I wanted to kind of process that of like, what is leadership?
Where are leaders born?
And what is the use of suffering and failure and adventure and risk in the development of of yourself?
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