Stop Bungling Your Life

Quote from Carl Jung

July 08, 2025

“It is often tragic to see how blatantly a man bungles his own life and the lives of others yet remains totally incapable of seeing how much the whole tragedy originates in himself, and how he continually feeds it and keeps it going.” -Carl Jung

Bungle: A verb meaning to do a task clumsily or incompetently.

I would tell you that the first thing to do when you find yourself in a hole is to stop digging, but you’d bungle that somehow and end up digging deeper.

A difficult truth to learn is that everything begins and ends with you. Life hands out plenty of reasons to point the finger elsewhere, but that will only leave you impotent and feeble.