Batman’s Biggest Risk Helped Me Take Mine

Before we begin today, last week I shared my entire story on video for the first time

(which includes the risk from the Batman movie)

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Now onto that Batman story…

There comes a moment in every hero’s journey where the world turns its back and the odds seem impossible.

Bruce Wayne faced that moment in The Dark Knight Rises.

A broken man, stripped of his power, left to rot in a prison buried deep in the earth while his city burned.The streets he prowled as a guardian of justice now belonged to the enemy.

The people he vowed to protect were suffering, waiting, hoping – but no one was coming.

He had one chance to escape, return, fight and save his city.

But there was only one way out: a climb up jagged stone, ending with a giant leap across a gap that swallowed every man before him.

Time and time again, Bruce climbed with a rope around his waist to protect him from the fall.

And every time he reached the leap, he fell.

Until one day, an old prisoner whispered to him...

And in that moment, Bruce understood.

It wasn’t strength that would carry him out of the pit. It wasn’t skill.

It was fear.

The raw, primal fire that demands you either rise – or perish.

And so, he climbed again.

This time, without the rope.

For the first time, he felt something new: absolute focus.

He climbed towards the final ledge, the pit stretched beneath him, waiting to swallow him whole.

And as he jumped, his fingers caught the ledge.

He had risen.

I know that moment.

I once thought I had control. I had a job. A stable paycheck. A place in the machine.

But in truth? I was buried alive.

A cog in the wheel of a massive construction consultancy, keeping my head down, fading into the background.

My dreams felt like echoes from a life I’d never live.

And then I saw it.

The escape.

This was 2017, the golden era of Facebook ads.

I watched. I studied. I knew there was something there, a shift happening in real time.

So I dipped my toes in freelancing.

Before and after work, during bathroom breaks, I tested the waters on Upwork.

It felt reckless. It felt exciting. It felt right.

Then, one evening, walking home from another forgettable day at the office, motivational playlist blasting in my ears, the realization hit me like a freight train.

I was at the edge of my own pit, staring at the ledge, and I had a choice.

1. Hold onto my job, keep one foot in my comfort zone, take the “smart” route.

2. Jump.

With almost nothing in my bank account, the echoes of my parents’ worry ringing in my ears, and absolutely no guarantee of success, I jumped.

Did I know what I was getting into? Not a clue.

But that’s when everything changed.

The leap is terrifying.

Every instinct tells you to keep the rope tied around your waist, just in case.

The rope is a lie.

It’s the illusion of security. The thing that stops you from going all in.

You have to jump without it.

Fear is not your enemy.

Fear is the thing that sharpens your instincts, pushes you past the limits you thought you had, forces you to find strength you never knew existed

This is the moment. Right now.

You are at the ledge.

You can stay where you are – comfortable, stagnant, safe.

Or you can do what Batman did.

What I did.

What every underdog who has ever rewritten their life has done…

Yours truly,

-Nigel Thomas

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