The Event Never Reaches You — Only Your Reaction Does
You will not get to choose most of what happens to you. The deal falls through. The hire quits. The market turns the week you launch. Benedict grants you all of it, and then takes back the thing you thought you had lost: the event was never the part that mattered. In How to Get Anything You Want she reaches for the laundry. Picture a package of bluing dropped into a tub of wash water. One small dip, and the whole tub takes on the color — and every garment that comes out of it carries that tint. Your subconscious is the tub. The bluing is your reaction. And here is the line that should stop you: the event itself never goes into the water. Only your reaction to it gets dipped. ...