When you always see the positives of any situation, it’s really difficult to be affected by the negative aspects
Seeing things from a positive angle eliminates negative feelings.
Chip Gaines was a slow first-grade learner. At the age of seven and a half, he had yet to learn the basics of the alphabet, but he wasn’t particularly bothered by it. His school split the first-graders into four groups; Eagles, Falcons, Blue Jays, and Penguins. Gaines belonged to the Penguin group, and when it was time for reading classes, the Penguins were taken to the gym instead.
Even though Penguins were the only birds who couldn’t fly among the other group of birds, Gaines never saw it as something to be ashamed of. Instead, he saw it as being special and unique. He believed he was special too, and that’s why he refused to focus on the negative aspects of his slow start.
⚡️The failure to believe in yourself is the start of a life-long inferiority complex. The best way to stay positive is to believe in yourself.
Growing up, Gaines had always loved baseball like it was his life. He shared the passion with his dad, and together, they played and practiced. Gaines’s love for baseball grew into an obsession, and it almost caused his downfall.
He paid maximum attention to baseball in school, and made the college team. Thinking he was on his path to becoming a professional baseball player, he was cut off in the first year in college. The sudden change affected him so much because he had already tied his existence to the prospect of being a baseball player.
⚡️ When you attach your self-worth to a particular thing, you are putting yourself at the risk of falling hard.
Gaines knew he couldn’t continue to wallow in self-pity, so he decided to move on with his life. He worked in a lawnmower company, and it was there he found another passion — being an entrepreneur.
Sometimes, your initial passion is only a means to an end. Gaines’s initial plan to become a baseball player made him so disciplined with his work, and this will later help him in the future.
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