Roxie Nafousi

That hurts.

But the second arrow is the one you shoot at yourself because you're adding meaning to that first arrow.

So you got rejected, but your takeaway of the second arrow is because I'm not good enough.

When really the reason was they were projecting their past onto you.

They were projecting a wound onto you.

They were just busy.

They were tired.

They were exhausted.

There's a million reasons.

And like you said, you're never going to figure it out.

And so you can play Sherlock Holmes and play investigator and try and figure out the detective version.

but you still will never be satisfied with the answer.

And so the Buddha says, don't fire that second arrow because the first arrow you weren't in charge of, but the second arrow you were.

And that second arrow is just your story, your meaning, which you're just making up.

And we've become the best fiction writers when it's writing the nightmare version of why this happened.

I've been asking you these questions and you've been nailing the answers.

I'm asking you more of these.

No, but you've done the work and that's why we can go everywhere.

Like, it's exciting for me because...

I want people to read the book and they're going to find the great eight steps in the book.