I’m a huge admirer of Pixar – their skill and passion in creating spellbinding CGI movies is truly amazing.
Watching Cars 3 with my little lad recently, I was struck by a line in the screenplay that could have been spoken by many iconic achievers.
The Owen Wilson character, Lightning McQueen is now an aging pro-racer, mentoring a young upstart, voiced by Cristela Alonzo.
She asks McQueen:
“What was it like when you turned up to your first race. How did you know you could do it?”
He answers naturally:
“I dunno, I just never thought I couldn’t”
And there, in one sentence, is a template for success in pretty much any field of human endeavour.
Here’s the path from your mind to the outside world:
- Thoughts create feelings.
- Feelings create actions.
- Actions create results.
As Henry Ford said, whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right.
If you don’t think of failure as an option, it isn’t.