Great Books Ep 49. The Odyssey Book 21. Failing Faster, Living Better: Finding and Stringing Life's Bows Earlier

Too often, we linger in unfulfilling journeys, and fail to recognize our misaligned paths, before it is too late.

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“I grieve for myself and for us all; I grieve that I shall have to forgo the marriage, but I do not care nearly so much about this, for there are plenty of other women in Ithaca and elsewhere; what I feel most is the fact of our being so inferior to Ulysses in strength that we cannot string his bow.”

~ The Odyssey …