The Self Mastery Challenge – Week #5 - Reset, Pivoting and Leverage

5th August 2024

“The one thing that I always learned in acting is that failures are inevitable. And it’s then a series of failures. And then it just becomes about failing better the next time and to embrace that and not to be afraid of failure. And just to attack it with everything, every fibre of my being and to just go for it.”

Michael Fassbender, Road to Le Mans

I love Michael Fassbender’s work and I really enjoyed the amazing series ‘Road to Le Mans’ which follows his journey to pursue his childhood dream of being a race car driver and competing in the 24 hours of Le Mans – the premier and legendary long distance motor race. Without wanting to spoil it for you if you haven’t watched it – he has a few setbacks – and there’s one bit where he has crashed and it really dents his self confidence but he still has to get back into the car, after they fix it, and drive through the night at Le Mans. He describes it as being out of his body, not really there – his dream has become a nightmare – so, I get the…