"This is a very important lesson. You must never confuse faith that you will prevail in the end—which you can never afford to lose—with the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be."For those not familiar with the name, Adm. Stockdale spent 7+ years in the "Hanoi Hilton".
“...the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality...”
Kind of puts the fine point on it, doesn’t it...