In this mornings read of "The Subtle Art Of Not Giving A F*ck" Mark Manson says: "We all get dealt cards. Some of us get better cards than others. And while it's easy to get hung up on our cards, and feel we got screwed over, the real game lies in the choices we make with those cards, the risks we decide to take, and the consequences we choose to live with. People who consistently make the best choices in the situations they're given are the ones who eventually come out ahead in poker, just as in life. And it's not necessarily the people with the best cards." Mark gives several examples to support this but the one that popped into my thoughts was a brilliant man who passed away very recently. And that is Professor Stephen Hawking. Professor Hawking started life pretty normally and healthy but then contracted a rare motor neuron disease that left him basically totally disabled, he couldn't even talk without the aid of a computer. I think with those cards most people would give up and fade out of existence feeling sorry for themselves. But Professor Hawking did not, instead, he rose up, played the hand he was given exceptionally well and gave much to the world. I don't know what within Stephen Hawking made him rise up rather than fade, but I want more of that. And clearly, as he and countless others show getting more of that is NOT about getting the right cards dealt to me, but learning and deciding how to best play what I have been dealt. The same goes for all of us.
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