You should check out this article on Alwyn Cosgrove’s site. It’s long, but oh so worth it.

I love the way the author, Geoff Thompson, rephrases the common mantra of “That which doesn’t kill me only makes me stronger.”

There is a lovely old Japanese metaphor about pain and fear and growth. I always recite it to myself when I am up against a wall of fear and easier options suddenly seem like the only escape. It goes something like - The iron ore feels its self needlessly tortured as it goes through the furnace. The tempered blade looks back and knows better.

Read it. Think on it. Absorb it.

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