A short personal reflection (YouTube video/transcript) in which James Laughlin describes reframing feelings of pressure and stress into gratitude by recognizing others' belief in him, flipping "pressure" into a "privilege," and calling this mindset shift life-changing.
Maybe this is the chance you have. This is your moment. And so I looked at that, what I digested to be pressure and learned that that was pressure and that was stress and then flicked around somehow to gratitude. And I was like, actually. And all these people believe that you can do it. And so what's the alternative to being in this seat right now? And the alternative is you're back on shore and you are nothing and you haven't achieved and you haven't done this and all sorts of different things. Your dad did it and you couldn't. You told people you'd be able to achieve something and you couldn't. You had your time in the arena and you didn't step. So there was hard pressure as well as gratitude going, well, all these people believe in me. And so it was that moment of flipping pressure around to see pressure as privilege, which was a wonderful moment and changed my whole, I guess changed my whole life.
