The most useful thing that you can do to improve your odds in any situation is one that I learned from Alan Watts. The thing is a realization. That realization is that all those factors working against you are like the ground that pushes up your feet or the hills in your way that take you higher.

Whether this was an original thought from Watts or some bit of wisdom he picked up, I do not know.

And really it’s irrelevant aside from the fact that Watts is peculiarly appealing for me due to my development.

Wish I had the clip on hand to share. But no such luck. Perhaps I’ll find it, at which point I’ll share all this again, since such things are worth the repetition.