wisdom from adversity
wisdom from adversity. You can’t control what happens, just how you respond. Adversity distort reality, but crystallizes the truth. Loss amplifies the value of what remains. It is easier to create new dreams than to cling to broken ones.
— from Failure & Resilience (Challenge/Failure/Perseverance/Accountability/Flexibility/Resilience) · Page 104
In the book
Washington did — not by the position you reach but by the obstacles you overcame getting there — remembering that the difficulties faced by the one in the arena are largely invisible to the crowd that critiques him, that the crucible, whatever its form, is what forges the strongest into who they become, and that many an ordinary person has found the strength to bear stark adversity, far more often than the frightened mind believes. For the deepest wisdom comes only from the falls themselves: adversity distorts reality in the moment but crystallizes the truth of what matters; loss amplifies the value of all that remains; and it is always easier to build a new dream than to cling to a broken one. So here is how to fall, and rise, and fly again. — Failure & Resilience (Challenge/Failure/Perseverance/Accountability/Flexibility/Resilience)