The Worst Prison in the World Steals Your Assets
The author Ryann Holiday wrote about Rubin “Hurricane” Carter.
In 1966, Carter, a middleweight boxer, was wrongly convicted of a triple homicide at the Lafayette Bar and Grill in Paterson, New Jersey.
Hurricane spent nearly twenty years in prison. Carter noted, “I don’t acknowledge the existence of the prison. It doesn’t exist for me.”
No, Carter was not delusional. Rubin understood that he was physically in prison. He just refused to let his mind be tortured by the fact.
Why is Carter’s philosophy a critical lesson? Because the worst prison in the world is a mind riddled with anxiety and doubt.
A prison of that temperament feeds your resignation from striving.
Psychiatrist Victor Frankl writes, “Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”
What if you did not choose to acknowledge the existence of the prison?
What if you choose the attitude in a set of circumstances?
What if you choose not to allow your assets to atrophy?