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It's good that things have been hard. Maybe you've had a hard time of it recently, that business project is three months over projections. Your book isn't really selling.

The comments in your performance review were brutal. Life can be like that. It kicks us around. The stuff we expected to be simple turns out to be tough.

The people we thought were friends, let us down. A couple storms or unexpected weather patterns just add a whole bunch of difficulty on top of whatever we've been doing.

How could that possibly be a good thing? You have to squint a bit to see it, but there is one way. You can see what's been happening as practice, as training.

Seneca wrote that only the prize fighter who has been bloodied and bruised in training and in previous matches can go into the ring confident of his chances of winning.

The one who has never been touched before, never had a hard fight, that's a fighter who is scared. And if they aren't, they should be, because they have no actual idea how they're going to hold up.

His point was that the boxer who has seen his own blood, who has felt his teeth rattle beneath his opponent's fist, who has been downed in body but not in spirit, they know what they can take.

They know what the darkness before the proverbial dawn feels like. Only they have a true and accurate sense of rhythms of a fight and what winning is going to require them to do.

That sense comes from getting knocked around. That sense is only possible because of the hard times, the hard knocks they've experienced before.

So yeah, things might not be great right now. Obviously it would be nice if they were better, but if they were, you'd also be weaker for it. Less informed, less in touch with yourself and the fight you're in.

So squint and see that, because it's an essential perspective.

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