On Things You Can't Control

Surrender is the first step on your journey to acceptance. Embracing hard truths is the first step to influencing the next outcome.

There was a lot of violence yesterday, for me it was both local and national. It feels like it’s been hard to keep up with, but our media has been pushing videos of murder so heavily that it’s hard to ignore.

I think I’ve been in above average number of “I can’t control this“ situations. I wish our world wasn’t like this, but trying to control what happened through outrage is a distraction from being able to have your own influence on the future outcomes that will arise from these situations.

I see this a lot in companies where trying to control or influence decisions already made, money already spent, or markets already won or lost is pretty futile, but people try anyways! I’ve tried a few too many times to know that first you gotta surrender to those truths, give yourself some space, then pop back up to make the change needed for the future. It’s the only way to built big products and make change in our society.