{"id":19485,"date":"2024-08-26T19:09:34","date_gmt":"2024-08-26T19:09:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bestratefinders.com\/blog\/?p=19485"},"modified":"2024-08-29T20:03:36","modified_gmt":"2024-08-29T20:03:36","slug":"the-warrior-emotion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bestratefinders.com\/blog\/everything-else\/the-warrior-emotion\/","title":{"rendered":"The Warrior Emotion"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nick Cave has taken over my life for the past month.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mr. Cave has been putting out music since the mid 1980s with his band Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. He\u2019s also a writer, screenwriter, poet, and all-around interesting dude.<\/span><\/p>\n

His band\u2019s most famous song, \u201c<\/span>\u200b<\/span>Red Right Hand<\/span>\u200b<\/span><\/a>,\u201d serves as the theme song for the show <\/span>Peaky Blinders,<\/span><\/i> which I have been watching this summer.<\/span><\/p>\n

And last week, Nick Cave turned up again in my life, and I can\u2019t stop thinking about his words.<\/span><\/p>\n

In a recent interview with Stephen Colbert, Cave talked about a letter he received from a fan who struggled to find hope as a young father:<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cFollowing the last few years, I\u2019m feeling empty and more cynical than ever\u2026.do you still believe in us [human beings]?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Whether we\u2019re struggling to stay motivated on a project or goal, or we get overwhelmed as a<\/span> \u200b<\/span>\u201dReceiver of Memories\u201d for all the pain in the world<\/span>\u200b<\/span><\/a>, I know what it\u2019s like to get cynical and lose hope sometimes!<\/span><\/p>\n

I bet you do too.<\/span><\/p>\n

Which is why I was so damn moved by<\/b> \u200b<\/span>Nick\u2019s reply<\/b>\u200b<\/span><\/a>, which I promise you is worth the watch:
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Because I\u2019m a nice guy I took the liberty of writing out Cave\u2019s reply here:<\/b><\/p>\n

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“My early life was spent holding the world and the people in it in contempt. It was a position both seductive and indulgent.<\/span><\/p>\n

The truth is, I was young and had no idea what was coming down the line.<\/span><\/p>\n

It took a devastation to teach me the preciousness of life and the essential goodness of people\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2026It took a devastation to find hope.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Here I paused the video, and learned that Cave\u2019s 15-year old son had accidentally fallen to his death back in 2015.<\/span><\/p>\n

Armed with this knowledge, I continued watching the video and was moved to tears:<\/b><\/p>\n

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\u201cUnlike cynicism, hopefulness is hard-earned, makes demands upon us, and can often feel like the most indefensible and lonely place on Earth.<\/span><\/p>\n

Hopefulness is not a neutral position.<\/span><\/p>\n

It’s adversarial.<\/span><\/p>\n

It is the warrior emotion that can lay waste to cynicism.”<\/b><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Hope Plus Acceptance<\/b><\/h2>\n

I\u2019ve<\/b> \u200b<\/span>written about acceptance<\/b>\u200b<\/span><\/a> quite a bit in this newsletter, as it\u2019s the skill I\u2019ve had to work hardest at developing for myself over the past few years.<\/b><\/p>\n

I\u2019m now realizing that acceptance combined with hope is the most powerful path forward when we are trying to navigate life.<\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s not just having passive hope that \u201cthings will work out.\u201d After all, things <\/span>might<\/span><\/i> not work out. At least, not the way we expect them to.<\/span><\/p>\n

Rather, it\u2019s actively cultivating hopefulness that we can endure whatever comes our way.<\/span><\/p>\n

In a<\/b> \u200b<\/span>past newsletter I wrote about hope<\/b>\u200b<\/span><\/a>, I pulled this quote from Dr. Lakshmin\u2019s Real Self-Care:<\/b><\/p>\n

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\u201cHope needs to be \u201csomething you do,\u201d not \u201csomething you feel.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Hope can be practiced by locating a deep desire, value, or commitment and taking a step towards it.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2026While optimism is the sense that everything will be okay, people who are hopeful have the understanding that things may not be okay, but that they have agency to make things a little better for themselves or for others.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Hopefulness is the warrior emotion that lays waste to the resistance in our heads.<\/span><\/p>\n

Hopefulness helps us realize \u201cEven if life is a dumpster fire, I have the ability to endure and survive whatever ball of chaos is heading my way.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

I leave you with this today:<\/b><\/p>\n

Whatever goal you are working towards, whatever struggle you find yourself stuck on, no matter where you find yourself in the game of life\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n

I hope this newsletter reminds you that you have agency.<\/span><\/p>\n

I hope this newsletter reminds you that any progress you make today, no matter how small, is powerful.<\/span><\/p>\n

As Nick concludes in the final moments of the video above:<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cEach redemptive or loving act, as small as you’d like, such as reading to your little boy, or showing him a thing you love, or singing him a song, or putting on his shoes keeps the devil down in the hole.<\/span><\/p>\n

It says the world and its inhabitants have value and are worth defending.<\/span><\/p>\n

It says the world is worth believing in.<\/span><\/p>\n

In time, we come to find that this is so.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

-Steve<\/b><\/p>\n

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Nick Cave has taken over my life for the past month. Mr. Cave has been putting out music since the mid 1980s with his band Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. He\u2019s also a writer, screenwriter, poet, and all-around interesting dude. His band\u2019s most famous song, \u201c\u200bRed Right Hand\u200b,\u201d serves as the theme song for…
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