jakelodwick:

The absolute worst, though, has got to be the attacks for any display of self-confidence. You may conceptualize the Unites States as a great nation. But it’s also a big tribe, with its own irrational taboos. One of them is: don’t talk proudly about your achievements.

My line of work requires me to aim high. If you can’t stomach that, fine, but consider the long-term effects of bashing me and others who goals are to innovate. Entrepreneurs, artists — our jobs are not easy; they require doing something new. This means we assume risk.

I want to restructure the phrases in this quote so rather than stating the positive then negative inverse of the principle (leading to the conclusion of said post: ‘quitting’, however appropriately and discretionary) is would state the inverse, negative, followed by the positive, which would give the same content, the same words, a starkly different effect: defiance, inspiration.

That which I read in it regardless.