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REEL 2: That curb and that rim
I'll admit it, the first thing I reached for in that video was an excuse. That's a reflex almost everybody has. Something goes wrong and we start blaming the curb or the other guy, anything except the part we own. My definition of failure is a moment when an outcome produced learning before the desired result, and that counts for the small stuff too. A scraped rim on an easy turn was enough to show me I was rushing. So this week, when something small goes sideways, hold off on the excuse for ten seconds and ask yourself what you were doing right before it happened. Then drop your own curb in the comments, the small one you'd normally laugh off. Mine was impatience, and the rim paid for it.
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