Brian Johnson explains recalibration: set a goal, take action, then adjust based on what happens. Like a guided missile constantly correcting course, you'll be off track most of the time. The difference between this and complaining is taking responsibility for where you're headed.
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So if you wanted to have a guided missile hit a target, you program the target, and then the guided missile miraculously goes from where you launch it to the target, but it's off course nearly the entire time, and it's readjusting to the data it gets nearly the entire time. So to use a less militant metaphor, an airplane that's going from New York to London knows it wants to go from New York to London, but it's off track most of the time, so it's constantly recalibrating to get back on track. So I know where I want to go. I have agency, I believe I can get there safely. And pathways, constantly readjusting my pathways, my energy is constantly dynamically focused on what's important now. So by asking ourselves what we want getting out of the victim, complaining, blaming, criticizing, we get more clarity. We come back, now it needs to get done, then we do it, then we get data. We take that in like our guided missile, and we adjust our course.