Do or Do Not There Is No
Try Yoda Quote and Meaning
Most of us have heard
the saying before that goes "do or do not, there is no try". I once
knew someone who loved this saying. But I didn't appreciate it much at the
time, as much as I do now.
This is a saying that is especially useful to for
those who think that their best is good enough. For some situations, maybe. For
many others, not so!
This is again an example
of not following all-or-nothing thinking, as a general rule. This saying,
"Do or Do Not, There Is No Try” has since grown on me and now I agree with
it in a way that I think it was meant to be seen.
Too many people out there
"try" and then fail. Then they become bitter, cynical, jaded
naysayers, complainers, critics, unbelievers or they might just be too lazy to
try hard enough and well enough.
Why Do vs Try?
They tried, and they
failed. So they gave up. They may have even tried 100 times and failed and
given up. Am I telling them to try again? NO! I instead will tell them what
Yoda said, "Do or Do Not, There Is No Try".
Let me make my point
using this analogy: if someone asked you to hold their baby, and said don't
drop my baby, would you tell them, "I'll try not to?" Dropping a baby
is something that you cannot do, EVER. It is simply unacceptable.
Same logic goes for "Do or Do Not, There Is No Try." There are some things that you just
don't fail at. It's called simply doing the things you MUST do them, in order
to be successful, no matter what. It is a level of assurance or perhaps
"mission assurance" that some of you who were military probably understand
well.
When Good Isn't Good
Enough
If you tried and failed,
maybe it means that your "try" is not a great effort, and your try is
such a weak and incomplete effort that it serves only as an excuse, a crutch,
and no real proof that you really tried your heart out.
Giving 110%, your
maximum effort, your best in all you do - this is how you overcome the
"try" attempt at something. You apply yourself fully. That's what all
those teachers meant when they said of someone "they could have been good
or great, had they "applied themselves."
I'm a firm believer that
if you want something bad enough, in most cases you can have it. While there
are always exceptions to this, in many and perhaps most cases, it depends not
on whether or not you try, but rather on the quality of how you try, how hard,
how smartly, how diligently and persistently?
The quality of your
"try" might need a boost! Here is how:
- You must try hard enough.
- You must try using the right tools, methods, ideas and plans
- You must try the right things
- You must try after seeking it out and finding the thing to try
- You must give it ALL you've got once the above criteria for "trying" have been met
In other words, when
Yoda said, "Do or Do not" he was saying, as I see it:
- You're already defeated if you come here with an "I'll try my best" attitude
- You come with less than your best, and that is like Sun Tzu, you lose the fight before it even begins, you lack commitment to truly see it through
- You need to come with an "all in" attitude, willing to commit fully, do what it takes, within reason, and get it done
- You need to have everything lined up where "making it happen" and "doing it" not just "trying" is the name of the game. So do this...
- Be decisive. Be exact. Be sure. Do it. Do or Do Not, There Is No Try!
Let’s now look at another area
of personal effectiveness, which is called the error or all-or-nothing-thinking
in my article The Mistake People Make With All-or-Nothing Thinking.
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