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Just because you’re delivered directly into the rancor’s lair or the belly of a sandcrawler doesn’t mean all hope is lost and your fate is sealed. But if you convince yourself that you know exactly how this is going to play out, you’re setting yourself up for certain failure. Rarely does life go exactly as planned, and that’s OK. Always in motion is the future.” - The Empire Strikes Back Quit trying to predict your fate and bend it to your will. “That is why you fail,” he says, in what would come to be known among future generations as the original mic drop.ģ. Yoda may be infinitely even-tempered but even Jedi Masters have their limits, and he is having none of Luke’s nonsense. “I don’t…I don’t believe it,” Luke exclaims. We’ve all been there, farm boy.īut ever the patient teacher, Yoda demonstrates the error of Luke’s thinking by effortlessly delivering the ship to dry-ish land with the wave of one tridactyl hand. Luke is positive he’s never seeing his X-wing again after his shaky Force-wielding sends it plunging deeper into the murky swamp water. But back up and it seems he’s more specifically warning against undermining your own successes with self-doubt. No list of Yoda’s best lines is complete without the classic and infinitely useful meditation on the black and white nature of success and failure. There is no try.” - The Empire Strikes Back

Hear you nothing that I say?…You must unlearn what you have learned….Try not. Stop focusing on the negative and commit. Perhaps Yoda said it best during Luke’s lesson in handstand-assisted stone stacking: “Concentraaaaaaate!”Ģ. Daydream all you want, but you’re missing out if you don’t at least try to live in the moment. The stern reprimand of Luke’s wanderlust is a prescient reminder for all of us: It’s tempting to think we were happier yesterday or could be better off still tomorrow, yet none of that matters if we overlook today. Hmm? What he was doing.” - The Empire Strikes Back All his life has he looked away…to the future, to the horizon. “A Jedi must have the deepest commitment, the most serious mind. Need a life coach? Master Yoda, the ultimate wise and wizened elder of indeterminate origin and unmistakable syntax, is here to help.