Do You Know Why "There is No Try"?

3/27/2014

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Pepe McD'inkleberg Nodriguez

I'll bet a lot of you have seen Star Wars and remember a line from the movie, "There is no try," spoken by Yoda, Luke Skywalker's teacher. It's when he's communicating to Luke that you either DO or you DON'T - there's no in between.

Anyways, I've been thinking about this a lot lately, and came up with this idea: there is no try, because there is no failure!

How can there be no failure, you ask? Because you are never done! It's ALL a process and there's no finish line.

Do you remember when you learned to ride a bike? Remember when in the beginning you would wobble or even fall over? Well, that wasn't failing, right? That was just part of learning. And eventually, if you set your mind to it, you learn to ride it smoothly. Or maybe you decide you don't want to - you'd rather learn to roller skate or ice skate. Or maybe you decide to do it for a living and learn how to ride bikes in the mountains. Some just do it occasionally or even once just. But there's no fail or succeed - it's your choice.

I think the same goes for anything in life, not just riding bikes - it could be playing music, or dancing, or a college degree, or writing. You can always get better, there's no finish line or moment when it's finally "done" and "successful". All of it's success because it's all learning and learning is part of growing…and I'm a believer that growing is good. Growing is definitely a big part of life here on earth - everything seems to grow and change: plants, trees, flowers, animals. And even when you stop growing in size, you can still grow in your mind and heart.

Sometimes "Try" means "experimenting for the first time."

Just because there is no finish line, doesn't mean you shouldn't set goals or "try" new things. Now here is a use of the word "try" where it makes more sense. This kind of "try" means "experiment" or "sample." When you "try" a strawberry, you taste it. There's no failure or success. You are trying it out - tasting it for the first time.

So these days, I'm trying not to say "try"…Whoops, wait! That's not what I meant to say! I mean to say: these days, I've decided to say "try" less often, because it often doesn't make any sense! I'm either doing or not. And it's my choice.

PS (update)

I didn't mention the second part of Yoda's famous phrase. There is no try... only DO.

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5/4/2017 06:40:14 pm

I get your point that there is no try because it's a matter of "do it" or "not do it." Sometimes when I want to do a certain thing, but there's something that hinders me to do so, all I can say is, "Let me try." If we want to do something, there's only two choices, to do it or not to do it. It's a matter of deciding whether you're going to push through or not. And it's true that to try is to experiment for the first time. Always remember that it's okay to commit mistakes at first, at least you've tried, or it's to better say, at least you had the guts to do it.

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is an expression of my Inner Child, reminding me to have fun and make room for play, while teaching me lessons I did not integrate from Kindergarten about the imagination and believing in myself.