George was a pirate, but he wasn’t a very good pirate.
Whenever he failed, he’d quote inventor Elon Musk:
“Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.”
The captain would point out that George had failed to make his bunk, cook breakfast for the crew, swab the deck, and raise the alarm that the British Navy was rapidly approaching from starboard.
George picked up a mop and began to swab the deck.
“Oh, good,” said the captain. “It’ll be nice and clean when they execute us for piracy.”
That made George feel accomplished.