The Flinch

getting lost is not fatal.

ruthless yet compassionate honesty in the face of all the lies you tell yourself.

This means that if you’re heading the right way, the pressure will never entirely disappear. If it does, you’re on the wrong path.

But every time you go the right way, you get stronger.

The truth is that judgment and fear will never stop, but they don’t actually do anything.

Every day, it finds food. The lion isn’t worried—it just does what it needs to

Ask yourself this: would your childhood self be proud of you, or

flinch is why you don’t do the work that matters, and why you won’t make the hard decisions. It’s why your organization isn’t competing. It’s why you don’t lead the life you want.

stuck in a hallway with a flinch behind every door.