Resilience comes from deliberately facing hard situations, not avoiding them. The speaker argues that constant ease weakens us, and that difficulty and comfort need to balance each other, like yin and yang, for us to truly appreciate the good.
The thing is, you evolve over time. So everything that happens to you in your life, that is also part of— it becomes you, and it also changes your kind of resilience. I'm big into resilience, right? Train resilience. And doing hard things, it's a good thing, okay? Yeah, things shouldn't always be easy. It shouldn't always be easy, okay? Claudia, walk in that hard cold rain, like Make it hard, you know. I think that's important. And Americans like to take the shortcut of always having the easy way. And easy way is not always the best way. And also you gotta have some toughness in order to appreciate the good. Yin and yang. You can't just have it good. You can't just have it easy. You can't just have it, you know, sunny and beautiful. You gotta have some harshness to it too. It's balance.
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