It's about what happens when you're 27 years old, running a holiday party with thousands of dollars in prizes, and you miss one line in the rules — and the top three salespeople, who had a little too much to drink, are staring at you like it's your fault. It's about what happens when you take a $180,000 a year client to dinner in Tennessee, bring the family, keep it casual, and don't anticipate a nine-year-old autistic boy having a meltdown at the table. And it's about why both of those scars — decades later — still mean something.
Mark unpacks why the jungle doesn't care about your reasons. Why the marketplace has no interest in your circumstances, your effort, or your intentions. Why you are not a victim and you are not special just for showing up — but you were created to be something significant, and the distance between those two things is entirely a matter of choice.