EP. 76 | Stop Just Looking for the Good

Sep 2

There's an old fable I heard again recently about a water bearer and two clay pots. One is perfect. The other has a crack in it, and leaks half its water on the walk home every single day — for two years.

Simple little story. But there's a line near the end of it that quietly dismantles most of the advice we get handed when life goes sideways.

Because "look for the good in it" assumes the good is already there. Hiding. Waiting for you to be observant enough to spot it. So you go looking, and you come back with nothing, and now you feel like you've failed a test on top of everything else.

This episode is about what the water bearer did instead - and why it's a completely different question to the one most of us have been taught to ask.

Also featuring: my neighbour Kevin, a runaway dog, and a farm gate that very nearly took me out. Turbulent episode. Wouldn't have it any other way.

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