Control What You Can. Release What You Can't

Forged In The Dark · Oct 6, 2026 · 11m · transcript

People are going to disappoint you. That part is inevitable.

But what if the real question isn't why it happened? What if it's what you're still holding that you were never going to control in the first place?

There's a line between what's yours to change and what isn't. Most of the disappointment that weighs us down lives on the wrong side of it. The replaying, the why did they, the grip on an outcome that already left your hands.

In this one, three different traditions handed me the same answer on the same morning. Control what you can. That part is you. Release what you can't. The second…