Owning it is more than just a sense of responsibility for your actions. As a component of personal accountability, it involves the integration of your identity into your work, your family, your beliefs, your successes and failures, and virtually anything else that your actions affect. That includes challenges that you did not choose—challenges you are inescapably thrown into.
There are pauses built into all kinds of things we do, and they are there for good reason. But in our professional lives, they’re verboten, and tragically, that keeps us from getting to a place where we can be truly effective and happy with what we’re doing.
