W. H. Murray

Now, in that situation, the timeline was what forced it.

Now there's a famous kind of, I don't know what you would call it, is it a passage from a guy called W.H. Murray about, you know, commitment.

I'm not going to read it out here, but you can check it out yourself.

It's quite well known, but essentially the idea in it is until we're genuinely committed, there's still a way out.

So for me, Jerry, what was very personal about that was, um, it made me think back to this quote that I used to, um, post in the chat room back in the day for traders.

And, um, I actually thought it was Goethe, but I, I, I looked it up and it's W.H. Murray.

I think it's from the Scottish Himalayan Expedition.

And the quote is, bear with me here.

Ask yourself honestly, can you cause this to happen? Are you actually willing to do what it takes on the days it's inconvenient and not just the days it's exciting? And step six, commit.

As the mountaineer W.H. Murray put it, the moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too.

Make a decision.

Something shifts the instant you stop hedging.

The beginning of chapter two is one of my favorites.

Again, it's usually attributed to Goethe, but it's actually William Hutchinson Murray, who was a mountaineer.

And it has many different iterations, but the one that I do have in the book, for me, it speaks to my whole journey so much.

It is the moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too.