Be a charging rhino

Our whole attitude to life has a picture attached to it, and it is a rhino, chosen for the way it charges.

A rhino, when it goes, goes completely. Head down, straight line, nothing held back, and it is very hard to stop. That is the first half. Be relentless about the things that matter to you. The training, the business, the promise you made. When you have decided, go, and do not spend the rest of it wondering whether you should have.

The second half is the one people skip. Be calm and kind with people. Every person, every time, including the ones who do not deserve it that day. Relentless with the goal, gentle with the human in front of you.

It is the hardest line to hold consistently. Most of us manage one half. The driven ones bulldoze people. The kind ones drift. Holding both at once, on a Tuesday, when the project is late and a child has just spilt a drink on the laptop, is the actual test, and nobody passes it every day. The rhino is there so that you know which way to fail towards.