EMBRACE YOUR LIMITATIONS
EMBRACE YOUR LIMITATIONS Why would the gods be jealous of we mortals, the ancient Greeks used to ask. After all, they have everything, as they sit sipping nectar in the Elysian fields. We, though, have to struggle, to fight, to admit failure in our lives. And yet, the poets tell us, they gaze down in envy. Why? It’s because our limitations are actually the making of us. Working within the constraints of our mortal frames gives us moral weight. It’s easy for a god to be great. But human greatness is impressive because it arises against the odds. This is a lesson that inspires Nicholas Nassim Taleb, the bestselling author of The Black Swan . The metaphor may be familiar. The black swan is the extreme, unexpected thing that will destroy all your certainties, that all swans are white. So, the trick is to be able to live in ‘extremistan’, the real world in which uncertainties will catch you unawares and will expose you to your limitations. To put it a...
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