You've learned not to collide at speed, and you've learned to negotiate a ceasefire with the we. Both of those are about the outside. This one is about the inside.

Somewhere within you are load-bearing places: your identity, your energy, your legacy, your aspiration. When someone else changes lanes and collides with one of them, even by accident, the shock sets off an overreaction you never saw coming.

You'll have watched it happen to someone else. One small collision, and they set fire to everything they'd built. They quit, they walked out, and nobody could say why. No amount of skill with the me or the we can protect you from the shock you don't know you're vulnerable to.

You'll still see it happen around you. Read the articles on my Substack, and you'll understand why someone set fire to their life over something so small.

Click Self-Guided. It's the Rick Steves' Guide to Everest. It will give you the manual and everything, step by step: how to climb the mountain of becoming self-aware enough to recognize you have prioritized places, but so do other people.

And maybe you should avoid colliding with that place in their life that's really powerful, that might set fire to your world by accident while they set fire to themselves.

If you have actually created significant success in your life and you would like to protect it, press Contact Robert, and you and I will talk about whether there's actually the energy and the effort within you to do the work of exploring the map within you, and how to protect it from collisions from those outside.

They'll collide against you. You can't control that. But what you can control is being prepared not to overreact, where you can pause and go, "Whoa, take a breath. Don't overreact. Recognize, locate and relate. Oh, they're threatening my identity. The shock to that is this."

If you and I can convince each other that you want to do the work, then we'll work together.