1-4-22: Best of shorts: Have you ever met a successful pessimist?

SAX IN THE MORNING

English - January 04, 2022 09:00 - 4 minutes - 3.46 MB - ★★★★★ - 34 ratings
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Previous Episode: 1-3-21: Best of shorts: Misery is optional

Next Episode: 1-5-21: Best of shorts: It's not luck, it's circumstantial indifference

Continuing our "best of shorts" this week, today is a short from September where I asked the question, "have you ever met a successful pessimist?"

I know I haven’t.

People who are successful ignore the odds, overcome the hardships and stay focused on the prize. Just take the story of Wilma Rudolph who contracted polio as a little girl, which left her with a brace on her leg and pessimistic doctors telling her she would probably never walk or run normally.

Well they were right, she didn’t walk or run normally because she grew up to become a 3-time Gold Medal Champion in the 1960 Olympics and was given the title at the time of the “fastest woman alive.” Listen to today’s short for the full story along with an old Cherokee story about the good, or positive wolf and bad , or negative and pessimistic wolf that lives inside all of us.