A notable Yoda quote is, “No! Try not. Do. Or do not. There is no try.” The implied meaning is that saying you'll try is creating a built-in plan for accepting failing as an outcome. I get what is meant here, but I still call BS. There are people that go into things with everything intent on "doing" but don't succeed. They're efforts ended in failure & they will have to decide whether of not to "try" again.
Like it or not, failure is always an option. No matter how much plan, how hard you push, how much you want; you can still fail. That isn't, "do not." That's a failed attempt.
I find this approach almost as awful as being toxically positive. There's a near aggressive mindset to this philosophy, that if you fail it's always on you. You didn't push hard enough, plan well, believe, have faith, cross your fingers or some other nonsense. Sometimes you fail no matter what. They say what comes next is the important part. But sometimes there's just not enough left to push again.
I never liked that muppet.
Cya...
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