WHAT IF THIS TIME IS DIFFERENT?

At any given time, some of the people you might want to engage aren't going to like you. As helpful as it would be to have them with you, sometimes they just won't want to hear you. They aren't going to want to help you. They are going to object to you and your thing, sometimes so loudly that you will want to give up because you think you need those people to continue. And they may insist that you can't proceed without them, if only because you never have before.

Maybe that is true. Maybe you do need them. Or maybe they just think you do, and you think that too because that is how the story has always been told. But what if you're both wrong this time? What could you do then? And maybe most importantly: if you give up because of those who refuse to go with you, what does that say to all the ones who already are with you?