Shelly Rood argues you shouldn't blame yourself when gear or conditions don't match your body. Recognize what you're actually capable of under standard conditions. Then share the operational knowledge you've built so the people after you don't start from zero and repeat your mistakes.
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The gear was wrong for your body. Your body was not wrong for the mission. I want you to hold both of these sentences at the same time because one of them is probably one that you've been carrying, and the other one is probably the one that you've been avoiding. The mission you held in conditions that the standard didn't anticipate, well, that says something real, and it says something specific about your capability. It's time for us to be recognizing our capabilities with deep accuracy. Now, the third move I want you to do here is to decide what you're going to pass forward. If you've invented solutions that nobody asked you to find, you have operational knowledge that the person coming up behind you needs. And without it, that person is going to start from zero, and they might even conclude the same wrong things about themselves that you were tempted to think. You don't have to become a spokesperson. You don't have to make a cause. You just have to stop treating what you learned as private and secret, because it's not private.