{"id":1433,"date":"2007-05-15T09:59:57","date_gmt":"2007-05-15T16:59:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=1433"},"modified":"2007-05-15T10:00:52","modified_gmt":"2007-05-15T17:00:52","slug":"the-stockdale-paradox-i-never-lost-faith-in-the-end-of-the-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/1433\/the-stockdale-paradox-i-never-lost-faith-in-the-end-of-the-story\/","title":{"rendered":"The Stockdale Paradox: “I never lost faith in the end of the story”"},"content":{"rendered":"

My friend Richard Nikoley<\/a> dug this<\/a> up<\/a>, Admiral Jim Stockdale talking about his experience in a Vietnamese POW camp:<\/p>\n

“I never lost faith in the end of the story. I never doubted not only that I would get out, but also that I would prevail in the end and turn the experience into the defining event of my life, which, in retrospect, I would not trade.”<\/p>\n

Asked: “Who didn’t make it out?”<\/p>\n

“The optimists. They were the ones who said we’re going to be out by Christmas. And, Christmas would come and Christmas would go. Then they’d say, We’re going to be out by Easter. And Easter would come, and Easter would go. And then Thanksgiving, and then it would be Christmas again. Then they died of a broken heart.<\/p>\n

“You must never confuse faith that you will prevail in the end — which you can never afford to lose — with the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

They can’t say “Yes” if you don’t ask — but they sure can say “No” if you do. Learning to surmount the fear of the “No” is how to get to the “Yes.”
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Technorati Tags: real estate<\/a>, real estate marketing<\/a><\/p>\n

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My friend Richard Nikoley dug this up, Admiral Jim Stockdale talking about his experience in a Vietnamese POW camp: “I never lost faith in the end of the story. I never doubted not only that I would get out, but also that I would prevail in the end and turn the experience into the defining […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1433","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-egoism-in-action","7":"category-marketing","8":"category-real-estate","10":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9380,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/9380\/what-lessons-have-we-learned-from-past-hard-times\/","url_meta":{"origin":1433,"position":0},"title":"What Lessons Have We Learned From Past Hard Times?","author":"Jeff Brown","date":"July 31, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Most of us can remember a time, sometimes even a specific moment when our spirit was so beat up it seemingly had to look up to see down. 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