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Extreme Ownership: How to Put Yourself Into a Consistent Self Growth Cycle

The courage to own your chaos changes everything

Thomas Oppong
3 min readApr 23, 2022
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Ever feel like life is a never-ending series of curveballs?

You’re so happy with your progress, and everything is going so well, but then something happens, and you feel completely off balance.

When you’re in the middle of something, it’s easy to think you’re doing everything right. But when something goes wrong, it’s easy to feel like you’re not doing anything right.

If your determination has ever wavered or you struggle to get back on track when you screw up, you need a more resilient mindset; extreme ownership. It’s the only choice that leads to self-growth.

Extreme ownership means taking full responsibility for your actions, choosing to own your mistakes without identifying with them, and finding ways to get back to winning ways as fast as possible.

“How we own our mindset will bring abundance or scarcity,” says Danielle Bernock.

Everyone has had a moment when their plan doesn’t go as it should. People with extreme ownership mindsets rebound as quickly as…

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Thomas Oppong
Thomas Oppong

Written by Thomas Oppong

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