I Prefer Baby Yoda

People love Star Wars and people love Yoda and I’m not exactly here to rain on anyone’s parade but you know what? “Do or do not. There is no try” is wrong. Yeah, I said it. I’ve seen the movie a couple of times, but if you haven’t: in this scene, Luke is trying to use the Force to get his spaceship out of the swampy area/thing.  Luke doubts himself and he doubts Yoda because obviously lifting a spaceship out of a swamp by wiggling your fingers in an air-high 5 seems pretty impossible.  And I think what Yoda’s saying is “If you don’t believe you can do it, you definitely won’t be able to do it.” I get that part. But… there IS most definitely TRY—and try and fail. Even when you believe you can do something. (Which is exactly what …

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