Radical Surrender: Irrelevant How Fallen Friends of Jeffrey Got into Mess

 Bill Gates does the mea culpa at the Foundation's town hall. Melinda was right to dump him.

Larry Summers will never be associated with Harvard again. Remember when he was president of Harvard. Harvard will probably never be Harvard again.

Nobel Prize winner Richard Axel resigned as co-director of Columbia University's Mind Brain Institute.

That's just the latest reputational ruin and more from being a Friend of Jeffrey. So many other careers have collapsed. More will be in tatters. How will Bard College president Leon Botstein wind up in the WilmerHale investigation? Who knows, Woody Allen could also get roughed up. As if the Farrow family didn't cause him enough trouble.

What to do? For the rest of their lives they might play out in their heads and over too many drinks with someone trusted how they became so embedded in the Epstein web. But there they are. It's documented in the emails, videos, photos and more. 

There's no going back. There could be a way forward, just as there has been for supposedly hopeless alcoholics since 1935. That is radical surrender to what is. Then taking the Twelves Steps of recovery.

"Radical Acceptance" means:

You acknowledge: “This is what’s happening.”

You stop arguing internally with reality

You reduce extra suffering caused by resistance.

Those emotions taken care of, then professional recovery can begin.

The Twelve Steps essentially represent the age-old wisdom of how to navigate a society. Artists position it as introspection. Spiritual leaders describe it as transforming those insights into behavior, ranging from confessing the wrongdoing to making restitution for all that to embracing a more righteous path.

Sounds very corny. But the almost-century of success of AA in putting the fatal disease of alcoholism into remission indicates effectiveness. 

Thanks to the Twelve Steps Anthony Hopkins had the blockbuster career he did. 

It was through the Twelve Steps that once powerful Congressman Wilmer Mills could continue a career as an equally powerful lobbyist on tax matters. That was after the stripper incident and more. 

Stephen King wouldn't be scaring us to death had he not embraced the principles of AA in 1987.

All this mysticism aside, there is a simple life guide: It's not what happens. It's how you handle it. 

A whole generation of achievers around the globe have much to handle as a result of the Epstein files. The issue is: Do they have the strength to get in there and decide to go on? 

Back before all this in 2022 iconic lawyer Brad Karp at Paul, Weiss mused out loud in a BusinessInsider interview if, given aging, he had the strength to continue with his demanding career. Now if he poses that same question about a possible next he might put together what no one, including himself, had ever anticipated.

In August 1981, I joined a Twelve Step program in DC Metro. Soon enough my writing was being published in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and a book still in print. I had accepted that I was a screw-up and my life was no longer manageable. 

Success is a mental game. Failure comes from being done in by the “committee” in your head.

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