Then I beg you to acquaint yourself with Brené Brown.
We look up from our struggle, wondering how much more we must endure, eye the distance between where we are and where we want to be, calculate how much more humiliation may be in store-and decide it's not worth it.ĭoes this sound familiar? Have you given up on a dream because you couldn't bear to spend one more minute in the field of suck? While you're trying and failing and disappointed that you're not there yet, there are usually people WATCHING you try and fail.įor many of us, it is so humiliating to fail in front of others that we may give up. To compound the problem, we frequently have to muddle through the field of suck under observation. It's disappointing, wanting to do something well and being unable to do it. The field of suck is a frustrating place. We all have to wade through the field of suck before we get to mastery." There is no way around the field of suck, and no one gets to skip the field of suck. "Whenever you're trying to get better at something, there's where you are at your starting point, and then way far ahead of you is where you want to be-mastery, the flow state, whatever.
A wise teacher I once had said this about pursuing excellence:
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