Pound for pound, the badger is the least reasonable animal on this planet, and that is meant as the highest possible compliment.
A Very Short Lesson In Nerve
A badger will look at something four times its size and decide that this is a fair fight. Not out of stupidity. Out of a genuine, unshakeable conviction that it is going to win.
It is usually right. That is the unsettling part.
Firefighting Blue Badger exists on this store for exactly that reason. Small, extremely determined, absolutely not interested in your opinion about the odds.
Why Size Was Never The Point
Everybody assumes courage scales with build. It does not. Courage scales with how quickly you stop calculating.
The biggest guy in the room hesitating is worth less than the smallest one already moving. Every crew knows this. Every crew has a badger.
Find The Badger In Your Life
You know who they are. They are the one who says "I'll do it" before anybody has finished describing the problem. They are never the biggest person there and it has never once slowed them down.
They also never take a compliment well, which is where a shirt does the job that words cannot.
The Honest Version Of The Message
Hold my beer is funny because it is usually reckless. On a badger it stops being reckless and starts being a fact.
Some people really do have it. They hand you the drink, they walk toward the thing, and they come back fine.
Be a badger about something this week. Pick something too big and go anyway.
Written by I've Got This… Hold My Beer. Thanks for reading.