Struggle
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Claim
In life we often face many challenges, and how we perceive them—as an opportunity for growth or something to fear—determines how we handle them. Not only is every struggle/pain an opportunity, there are hardly any opportunities that don't involve hardship.
Explanation
Being raised with a silver spoon, even if it includes "the best education" is worthless without struggle. Through challenges we gain Emotional resilience enables managing hardship and maintaining composure and Grit enables persisting through struggle and challenge.
Progress emerges through cycles of destruction and reconstruction is proof that not only pain/struggle is helpful for growth, it is even vital. Something has to end, in order for the good to sink in.
Facing challenges creates moments of Critical moments force examination of identity and belief, where we see who we are. Challenges by their very nature are something that hits us so hard that we are forced to change.
Why it matters
Facing challenges is not easy. We can be broken beyond repair, a shadow of our previous self, or we can rise above it. Some, if not all hardships can break us, and we will feel terrible while facing them, but this doesn't dictate our destiny. Our worst moments can turn us into our best selves—there is no contradiction between how awful the hardship is, and the insights we can extract from it.
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The way to convert trauma into growth:
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Agency - Have a clear understanding of what you had and didn't have control over Agency is the ability to connect desires and actions. You don't control the world, and only little of your circumstances; some things are unavoidable. But you can always choose how to respond Introspection develops self-knowledge through internal examination.
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Narrative - How we perceive the world and ourselves is the result of the stories we tell ourselves. Try to create one that is imbued with Being kind to yourself strengthens resilience and growth, and avoids self blame. Focus on growth, on what we can learn from it, how it improves us.
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Defining - Understand that trauma reveals your character, so it could also be a chance to become someone better. Understand what matters to you in the moments that matter most, and it is within these moments that who you are is manifested. What we do is not who we are
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