Failing to accept how the world really works puts your time and energy toward proving how right you are. When the desired results don’t materialize, it’s easy to blame circumstances or others. I call this the wrong side of right. You’re focused on your ego not the outcome. Solutions appear when you stop bargaining and start accepting the reality of

the entirety of human suffering can be boiled down to this effort to resist paying full attention to the way things are going, because we wish they were going differently (“This shouldn’t be happening!”), or because we wish we felt more in control of the process. There

If you want long-term success in business, relationships and life, you have to get better at accepting uncomfortable truths as fast as possible.