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Only Try, p. 214

In my teens, I had to be an athlete because I was not an athlete. I

had to be a musician because I could not carry a tune. I had to be

the president of my class in boarding school. I had to first in

everything because in my perverse heart I felt myself the least of

God’s creatures. I could not accept my deep sense of inferiority,

and so I strove to become captain of the baseball team, and I did

learn to play the fiddle. Lead I must–or else. This was the “all or

nothing” kind of demand that later did me in.


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“I’m glad you are going to try that new job. But make sure that

you are only going to ‘try.’ If you approach the project in the

attitude that “I must succeed, I must not fail, I cannot fail,’ then you

practically guarantee the flop which in turn will guarantee a

drinking relapse. But if you look at the venture as a constructive

experiment only, then all should go well.”


1. A.A. Comes Of Age, p. 53

2. Letter, 1958

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