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… — writing not far from where Bill Walsh practiced the 49ers — we need to “keep our identities small.” Make it about the work and the principles behind it — not about a glorious vision.
We must resist the desire to pretend that everything unfolded exactly as we’d planned. There was no grand narrative. You should remember — you were there when it happened.
Writing our own narrative leads to arrogance. It turns our life into a story — and turns us into caricatures — while we still have to live it. And this was true for the 49ers too. Their two seasons after the Super Bowl, they lost 12 of 22 games.