“If you end your training now, if you choose the quick and easy path as Vader did, you will become an agent of evil,” Yoda warns in no uncertain terms. Not even Obi-Wan Kenobi, back from the dead, can deter Luke from his bad decisions. Where’s C-3PO when you actually need him to tell you the odds? But Luke is still just learning that his decisions impact other people and sometimes he’s not very good at weighing out all the factors. Han, even from the depths of his carbonite slumber, probably knows it. Or as many a sighing parent has said - the world does not revolve around you! The Rebel Alliance is bigger than any individual person, Luke! Leia knows it. If you leave now, help them you could, but you will destroy all for which they have fought and suffered.” - The Empire Strikes Back Quit being so selfish and impulsive, man. Which brings us to little gem, spoken as Luke prepares to rush headfirst into the Empire’s trap in Cloud City:ĥ. When Luke is completely ready to ditch his training and undermine the entire Rebellion based on the murky predictions that his friends may be in trouble, Yoda adamantly warns him against acting rashly, but the choice is clearly Luke’s to make. We see this again and again when Yoda is chatting with the reckless young Skywalkers. Most of the time when you’re choosing between two options, they both have pros and cons, but one thing is for sure: No one can make the decision but you. “The wrong question that is.” Here’s the truth we all need to hear: Ezra’s journey both literally in the temple and figuratively in his life are his to decide. “Which way is the right way?” Ezra asks the ethereal advisor inside the Jedi Temple. “Your path you must decide.” - Star Wars Rebels, “Path of the Jedi” Who’s in charge of your future? Oh, right, it’s you. However, that doesn’t get you off the hook on making terrible life decisions because…Ĥ. Assess the situation at hand, figure out your options, and take decisive action. Just because you’re delivered directly into the rancor’s lair or the belly of a sandcrawler doesn’t mean all hope is lost and your fate is sealed. But if you convince yourself that you know exactly how this is going to play out, you’re setting yourself up for certain failure. Rarely does life go exactly as planned, and that’s OK. Always in motion is the future.” - The Empire Strikes Back Quit trying to predict your fate and bend it to your will. “That is why you fail,” he says, in what would come to be known among future generations as the original mic drop.ģ. Yoda may be infinitely even-tempered but even Jedi Masters have their limits, and he is having none of Luke’s nonsense. “I don’t…I don’t believe it,” Luke exclaims. We’ve all been there, farm boy.īut ever the patient teacher, Yoda demonstrates the error of Luke’s thinking by effortlessly delivering the ship to dry-ish land with the wave of one tridactyl hand. Luke is positive he’s never seeing his X-wing again after his shaky Force-wielding sends it plunging deeper into the murky swamp water. But back up and it seems he’s more specifically warning against undermining your own successes with self-doubt. No list of Yoda’s best lines is complete without the classic and infinitely useful meditation on the black and white nature of success and failure. There is no try.” - The Empire Strikes Back Hear you nothing that I say?…You must unlearn what you have learned….Try not.
Stop focusing on the negative and commit. Perhaps Yoda said it best during Luke’s lesson in handstand-assisted stone stacking: “Concentraaaaaaate!”Ģ.
Daydream all you want, but you’re missing out if you don’t at least try to live in the moment. The stern reprimand of Luke’s wanderlust is a prescient reminder for all of us: It’s tempting to think we were happier yesterday or could be better off still tomorrow, yet none of that matters if we overlook today. Hmm? What he was doing.” - The Empire Strikes Back
All his life has he looked away…to the future, to the horizon. “A Jedi must have the deepest commitment, the most serious mind. Need a life coach? Master Yoda, the ultimate wise and wizened elder of indeterminate origin and unmistakable syntax, is here to help.
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