When you’re gunning for the top post, and someone thinks you’re not worth it, how does that make you feel?
Not good, right?
A recent interview by US Republican ex-candidate Vivek Ramaswamy was outstanding.
A lady in the audience asked him whether he would accept being a VP to Trump (her implicit assumption being that Trump would win and be President).
Vivek said that he would always put his country first, and do what was needed. But also that he felt he was the right choice to run America.
The lady then said that his answer sounded like “a maybe”.
To which Vivek said, “I gotta tell you about a defect I’ve got. You need to know because you gotta know your President has a defect. And that defect is, that I never have a Plan B!”
A masterclass in handling hecklers if there was one! But more than that, it shows extraordinary confidence in one’s abilities. Could he lose? Yeah, anything can happen, and I don’t remotely understand politics, so that’s not even the point. But if we could all work as though we had no plan B’s, how cool would that be?!