Grin And Bear It: How To Be Happy No Matter What Reality Throws Your Way - Plot & Excerpts
—ARISTOTLE (HE’S GREEK, TOO) When I agreed to do a reality television show it never occurred to me that my pain and struggles would become someone else’s entertainment. As I was healing from my breakup, Kathleen once said to me, “Don’t block it, go ahead and feel humiliated.” She went on to say something that continues to resonate with me, “Go into battle dead already.” She told me about a Japanese swordsman who had written a book more than four hundred years ago, who had gone into battle dead already. At the time, he was the premier swordsman in Japan. He said the reason he was so good with his sword was because he had no hesitation during a battle, believing he was dead already. Killing that fear set him free. To me, humiliation was death. If you acknowledge and tell the truth that you’ve already been humiliated, you have nothing to lose. You’re free to concentrate on the job at hand because you’re not focused on the possible negative outcome. I used to walk around performing all sorts of crazy, humiliating stunts, like dressing (or undressing in this case!) as a nudist for Halloween or playing a giant rapping lizard, thinking—even believing—that I understood what humiliation really meant.
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