“timidity will do a thousand times more damage…” (Great Work quote)
“Given the same amount of intelligence, timidity will do a thousand times more damage than audacity.”
~ Karl von Clausewitz, 1780 – 1831
As someone holding Canadian, Australian and British citizenships (yes, I’m an international man of mystery) … I was nonetheless engrossed by Barrack Obama’s inauguration.
His speech was typically stirring (and written by a 27 year old to boot), and it brought to mind Obama’s biography The Audacity of Hope.
Audacity is a juicy word, and it’s useful in today’s quote to see its shadow, timidity.
One of the exercises in Find Your Great Work is about asking: what does full commitment look like, and this discussion plays in the same arena.
With this quote, the coaching questions are:
==> Where in your life are you being timid?
==> If you were being audacious – bold, courageous, firm – what would you do differently?
- “A lot of times you’re going to get worse before you do get better” (Great Work quote)
- “Whether it’s the best of times or the worst of times…” (Great Work quote)
- “Wanting it is easy, but trying to be great – well, that’s torturous” (Great Work quote)
- “just better than I was yesterday…” (Great Work quote)
- “Specialization is for insects” (Great Work quote)
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