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Who you are is defined by what you're willing to struggle for.

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The Backwards Law

The Backwards Law

wanting positive experience is a negative experience, accepting the negative experience is a positive experience.

If pursuing the positive is a negative, then pursuing the negative generates positive. For instance,

  • The pain you pursue in the gym results in better all-aro...

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We shouldn't seek to find the ultimate "right" answer for ourselves, but rather, we should seek to chip away all the ways that we're wrong today so that we can be a little less wrong tomorrow.

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Negative Emotions

Negative Emotions

Emotions are simply biological signals designed to nudge you in the direction of beneficial change.

Negative emotions are a call to action. when you feel them it's because you're supposed to do something.

Positive emotions are re...

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No Struggle, No Victory

  • I wanted the reward and not the struggle. I wanted the result and not the process. I was in love with not the fight but only the victory. And life doesnโ€™t work that way.
  • Who you are is defined by what youโ€™re willing to struggle for.

Choose your struggle

Happiness comes from solving problems but problems will never end in life, the goal is to have better and meaningful problems.ย 

We need to choose our struggle because thatโ€™s inevitable. You are defined by what youโ€™re willing to struggle for.

Happiness and struggle

Happiness and struggle

Consider the question:ย What are you willing to struggle for? Because that seems to be a greater determinant of how our lives turn out. Happiness requires struggle. The positive is the side effect of handling the negative. You can only avoid negative experiences for so long before they come ro...

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