Dr. John A. King describes turning childhood shame into what he calls medals of honor. Instead of hiding past mistakes, he owned them, took responsibility, and used that acknowledgment to build resilience and move forward.
I talk about in Deal With It a stage in my life where I turned the scars of shame into medals of honor, like the scars of the shame of what I went through as a kid into medals of honor in terms of I survived this. You know, that's a pretty big achievement. Mm-hmm. And so that's, that's a really interesting reflection, Ron, because if it's shameful and I'm sitting in judgment over poor mistakes, poor errors, Misdeeds. Then at some point, I've got to flop that and say, you know what? Yes, I did. I take responsibility. I'm still here. I'm alive. I'm going to live forward. I'm going to flop that. And now it becomes resilience and relentlessness.
