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 The Flight Plan (Purpose/Wisdom/Risk) · Mental Toughness by HBR

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You love another person knowing full well you may not be loved in return, and you do it anyway — and that ordinary courage is the only road to the things that finally make a life worth flying. Adversity carries its own hidden gift here: you cannot control what the sky does to you, only how you respond, and it is precisely there, in the response, that wisdom is forged. Michael Jordan, asked about all the shots he had missed over the years, only shrugged — so what; there was never any fear of failure in him, because he had long since made his peace with the cost of daring. — The Flight Plan (Purpose/Wisdom/Risk)

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