Dare to say out loud the thing that you actually want and the hard part is actually over. Because then you'll start to make a plan, and when you have a plan, then you'll start to make that plan real.
Ian Brennan
Loyola University Chicago Commencement 2015, 2015
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This was Brennan's most psychologically acute observation — that the biggest barrier to achieving ambitious goals isn't logistics or resources, but the act of honest self-admission. Most people, he argued, never get past the stage of privately knowing what they want, because saying it aloud makes it real and therefore vulnerable to failure. Brennan connected this to his emphatic rejection of 'Plan B' thinking. When someone asks 'What's your fallback?' — his advice was to 'slap them.' Not because backup plans are inherently bad, but because they plant 'the seed of failure right next to the seed of success,' psychologically preparing you to accept defeat before you've even started. The progression he described — admitting the dream, making a plan, executing the plan — was deliberately simple. The complexity isn't in the steps; it's in the courage required for that first one. Brennan's own journey from a Loyola theater student who wrote 'the worst play ever written' to the creator of a cultural phenomenon proved that voicing the dream is the catalyst for everything that follows.
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