Trystan Trenberth tells the story of two brothers with an alcoholic father: one ended up incarcerated blaming his dad, the other became a multimillionaire. The difference was choosing to reframe hardship as fuel instead of excuse.
You know, a lot of people grew up in a place of, of, uh, a lack or perceived lack. You know, maybe there's an alcoholic parent. I'm not saying every parent is an alcoholic, but in those situations, there, there's the story of the two, the two sons. The, they had both had, obviously they were sons of the same father. He was an alcoholic. Uh, one was in jail, uh, you know, the one end of the scale, and the other one was a multimillionaire. They both give— gave the inspiration or the, the reason for their success or lack of success as their dad being an alcoholic. One just followed the path and accepted the path forward and blamed his dad. The other one chose he was never going to be anything like his dad, and despite that, you know, created his own path to success. So it's a very clear opportunity to recontextualize our life, recontextualize situations and those events that shape our life and we can look at them differently and see them differently and make them mean something different that empowers us instead of holds us back.
