Jim Kwik explains how hardship creates a fork in the road with three possible outcomes: it can distract, diminish, or develop you. You have more agency than you think in choosing whether adversity makes you bitter or better.
What is a challenge or what is a hardship or even a trauma? It's a point. And from that point, a fork emerges and we have much more choice than we think we do. Yes, sometimes events are very hard, difficult, and life-changing and not in a positive way. But in most cases—
Yeah, we're not mitigating the suffering that people are having, but it's just showing them that there are all these other choice points, that these difficult times, they could distract us, these difficult times can diminish us, or these difficult times, they could develop us. We could have a choice of, does this make you bitter or does it make you better impact.
The Library of Minds: Brain Coach: How to Stay Sharp When AI Does the Thinking | Jim Kwik
