🏁 TREE 578: What would you attempt if you knew you couldn’t…

Robert Schuller’s question via Regina Dugan is a good one:

What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?

Don’t fear failure, follow your dreams, do amazing things, etc. They love this question in Silicon Valley.

Once upon a time, possibly in an email, Steven Lee Tracy turned this question on its head and maybe made it better:

“What would you do if you knew you couldn’t win?”

What I’d be doing is writing this email to you.

If I knew that I’d never be recognised as the best, if only Christine read what I wrote, if no one ever looked at my silly drawings, if I never got paid, if I was to be remembered for nothing that I accomplished, I would write and draw and design.

The reward is that I get to do this.

Anything else is a bonus.

When you’re doing the thing you would choose to do even if you have no chance of winning at it, you fill your work with untouchable joy.

Always be grateful that horses don’t have access to social media. They have opinions for days.

Cover number three: Olivia Jean takes on Enya’s megahit Orinoco Flow. At first you’ll be like haha, then you’ll say, hold on, I actually like this.

Grow slowly
Jeff