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  • Much of the reason why we give up far too soonfall into despair and abandon our projects is not  

  • because things are hard per se but because  they are harder - far harder - than we had  

  • ever expected them to be. It isn’t necessarily  difficulty that sinks us; it’s bad notions about  

  • what a noble task should legitimately demand. We operate with dangerously inadequate views of  

  • what it takes for anything good to happenof what it might take to have a moderately  

  • good relationship, to run a more or less  viable business, to have a circle of friends,  

  • to be healthy, to build a home or to achieve  balance of mind. We lose our tempers, cry and  

  • scream - because we perceive injustices where  there are in fact only encounters with entirely  

  • reasonable and predictable degrees of pain. A wiser society would include in every school  

  • curriculum a weekly class titledHell, your  future,’ which would systematically induct  

  • the young into the necessary degrees of suffering  required by any worthwhile life. We would realise  

  • that we make people strong not by enchanting them  with descriptions of a life of opportunities,  

  • but by being aptly honest about things tend to  go. It isn’t in any way either cute or kind to  

  • educate a young person for a world that doesn’t  exist. Thrice married couples would address the  

  • young on the complexities of love; cancer  survivors would deliver lessons on the  

  • preciousness of time; artists and entrepreneurs  would testify to the absurd yet vital sacrifices  

  • required to produce results that look easy. No  young person would be left under the slightest  

  • illusion that fulfilling moments demanded anything  other than torment - and would, as a result,  

  • be in a far better place to attain them one day. The wise keep going not because they are braver,  

  • but because they have learnt to be a lot better  prepared, by which we mean, a lot sadder. They  

  • know that defeats and humiliations are unavoidable  events, not freakish punishments.  

  • They wonder, at the close of every quiet daywhy not more has gone wrong. They succeed on  

  • the basis of fully expecting everything to  be just about as hard as it really will be.

Much of the reason why we give up far too soonfall into despair and abandon our projects is not  

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How to Be Strong and Resilient(How to Be Strong and Resilient)

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    林宜悉 に公開 2023 年 10 月 28 日
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