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The Man in the Arena by Theodore Roosevelt
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better.
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood;
who strives valiantly;
who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming;
but who does actually strive to do the deeds;
who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause;
who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”
If you haven’t listened to Brene Brown’s TED talk “Listening to Shame” you should. It gets wonderful around 11:45.
Click:
http://www.ted.com/talks/brene_brown_listening_to_shame.html
Me too.
2 comments:
Awesome article of Theodore Roosevelt . Thanks for sharing this with us.
LOVED that talk. I think the Psychopath Test was a TED talk too, but right now I'm listening to the full audiobook (while I mow the lawn). It's pretty interesting.
Can't remember which talks I already shared with you. I guess it depends what you're interested in but you might like these...
Elizabeth Gilbert: Your Elusive Creative Genius
Jill Bolte Taylor's Stroke of Insight
Elyn Saks: A tale of mental illness -- from the inside
Neil Pasricha: The 3 A's of awesome
Sherry Turkle: Connected, but alone?
Let me know if you find any more really good ones. I'm rarely disappointed by TED, but some like Brene Brown's are just amazing!
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