You grow your muscles by literally tearing down your muscle fibers, you increase your intelligence by studying and doing homework and taking tests, you learn to love whole heartedly by having your heart broken. Failure allows us opportunities for learning and discomfort allows us opportunities for growth. Sometimes you have to take the good with the bad and realistically without the bad there is no good.
Life is not always going to be great, if it was we may not appreciate it how we should. And it can be healthy to acknowledge that sometimes things do not always go our way, maybe we make a bad decision, find ourselves in a bad situation or things are simply out of our control. So this month we are practicing "embracing the suck" and identifying the things in life that may not feel good or desirable in the moment but make us stronger, more resilient, and create character. Acknowledge that it may suck, give it a little space to exist and then think about how you are going to embrace it. Are you going to persist or fight it, maybe find a compromise. What can you get out of the situation. I truly believe we are hopeful creatures and want things to have meaning and purpose - it gives us something to hold onto to.
Resources: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5mLgvEASlFD7nbKQe9rbfe... ○ The Psychology Podcast - Dan Pink "Normalize Regret" 12:55 ○ Freewill vs Fatalism - the vast majority believe in both - Too mechanical in understanding of behavior - Our lives might be sorting out where we do and don't have control ○ 80% said yes we believe people have freewill ○ 80% said yes we believe everything happens for a reason "Embrace the Suck" - Brent Gleeson (forward by David Goggins) https://www.operationmilitarykids.org/embrace-the-suck.../ ○ "It’s a reminder to willingly accept suffering, hardships, and inevitable difficulties in order to make the best of the circumstances." ○ "working to change it or developing the perseverance to get through it" ○ "This is by accepting current discomfort for future success or confronting what is uncomfortable to overcome it."
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