cleantechnica.com
12 Jan '18, 10pm
What Do Elon Musk, Bono, & Tom Petty Share In Common? Of Square Pegs & Round Holes
For some of us, it may begin with a reckoning of our own scar tissue. We tend to cover our wounds with pretense. We disavow them. Which of course doesn’t work. But we keep trying. Sometimes all our lives. What if we instead did the opposite? What if we looked at our wounds straight on and asked how we may have benefited from those experiences? Our three heroes in this essay share one other commonality in that they have all spoken openly about their childhoods. The message: Maybe someone actually did you a favor when they wounded you. Whether they knew it or not. That’s a startling notion, but regardless, at the end of the day, are we not free to hold such events in whatever light we choose? What would it be like to acknowledge the wounds — at least to ourselves — and choose to see them in a new light? To realize that all of us humans are in the same boat, and take inspirat...
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