Shane Parrish
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And I think that's a brilliant sort of example.
I do this with my kids too, right?
Like it takes a lot of courage to go in and apologize to your kids, or at least it does for me.
Yeah.
You know, but I'm like, I'm trying to model this behavior.
Yeah.
And back to your earlier point, right?
It's not about being perfect in every moment.
It's really just about getting better and learning to recognize what you're doing to your position, learning to recognize if you're moving in the right direction, learning to recognize if circumstances are deciding for you or you're in charge and the recognition of those things.
I don't have to tell you what to do in those moments.
Once you start to recognize them,
you know what you want to do.
You just can't see it because your perspective is like blinders, right?
In this moment, you can't see the broad perspective.
Just like if I look back on my 16-year-old self, I did things that were pretty stupid.
but my 70 year old self is going to look back on my 40 year old self now and be like, you did things that were pretty stupid too.
And what that is, is it's just a different perspective.
I don't have the perspective of a 70 year old.
And in those moments, what's happening is we're just that horse, right?
We get the blinders on and our perspective in that moment, it's