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# Be more goldfish
- URL: https://www.gilespcroft.com/be-more-goldfish/
- Published: 2026-10-19T06:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-19T05:59:59.000Z
- Description: Some folksy wisdom from everybody's favourite hapless football coach 🐟
- Author: Giles P Croft
- Tags: Quick insight, Acceptance, Film & TV, Attention, IMPLICATIONS, Metaphor, Presence, Resilience, Thought realisation, Trauma

[Yesterday's Daily Reminder](https://www.gilespcroft.com/a-bucket-from-the-river) was all about turning our attention from past hurts, and it brought to mind a folksy little quote from Season 1 of the peerless [Ted Lasso](https://tv.apple.com/gb/show/ted-lasso/umc.cmc.vtoh0mn0xn7t3c643xqonfzy?ref=gilespcroft.com).

Hapless coach to a football team in the doldrums, they'd just been hammered again and he was trying to instil some perspective into the proceedings – sharing the Innate Health understanding in his own special way:

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/9b/f3/9bf3d316-7d32-494b-814f-a7d94d6358c3/content/images/2026/10/EFF2796D-6E55-40E9-885A-B1F7EB0C37EA_1_102.jpeg)

> *“You know what the happiest animal in the world is? It's a goldfish. It's got a 10 second memory. Be a goldfish!”*  
> \~ Ted Lasso

(Fish) food for thought.

🐟

Giles

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