Chasing Excellence

Chasing Excellence

Identity Through Action

Daily Chase #99

Sep 18, 2025
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Photo by GMB Fitness on Unsplash

"I'm not the type of person who can do a pull-up."

This sentence reveals everything wrong with how we think about capability. We treat our current limitations as permanent features of our identity, then act in ways that make those limitations true.

Our friend Marcus Wilson told us the story of a the woman who said this when…

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