Pain and suffering can lead to growth, and Gross…

Page 214. Pain and suffering can lead to growth, and Gross is good. But suffering, failure, or trauma can also be terribly negative if our personal narratives are not in order.

— from Failure & Resilience (Challenge/Failure/Perseverance/Accountability/Flexibility/Resilience) · Fortitude American Resilience in the Era of Outrage written by Dan Crenshaw

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And when you need to size up a blow, run it through four lenses — how much control do I have, how wide is its impact, how broad is the damage, and how long will it really last. Hold onto the truth that pain and suffering can lead to real growth — though only if your inner narrative is in order, for the same blow can also break a person whose story about it has gone wrong. Faith helps here: as Isaac understood it, the very challenge of confronting difficulty, and finding the faith to overcome it, is what makes a person better. — Failure & Resilience (Challenge/Failure/Perseverance/Accountability/Flexibility/Resilience)

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