Man Up

06/02/2019 19 min
Man Up

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Episode Synopsis

If not for the beast within us we would be castrated angels – Hermann Hesse

I’m often asked …”Darren, have you conquered your demons?”
The “devil” didn’t make me do anything.

It wasn’t the “bad” in me or the “addict in me” that I can blame and side step the onus of personnel responsibility and ownership. Playing hide and seek with the blame game won’t tip the sacred scales of justice and fairness.

How can you have any ownership and stand in your presence, strength and humility if you have not taken any responsibility?

Do you want fuzzy wuzzy cozy or the skin tight feel of honesty?

Honesty comes in many shapes and sizes. and isn’t a fuzzy wuzzy cozy t-shirt. We can stuff honesty in the closet with the rest of our skeletons and shadows; hoping it doesn’t pop out and scare the absolute shit out of us.

Two years ago Insider Asia Magazine asked me What is Strength?

Strength is an annealing process.

A samurai sword goes through a process of extreme heat to extreme cold over 1300 times to free it from internal stress.

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