High fit

Brightness controls whether someone sees the hopeful or dark side of a situation. Nick Green, when asked about the hardest years at Thrive Market, chose to see the difficulty not as damage to be undone but as a necessary part of what made the outcome real. He turned the brightness up on the struggle — not to minimize it, but to recognize its value. Where someone else might look back with regret, he looked back with something closer to gratitude.