Feeling the Hurt to Grow: A Powerful Lesson from Purdue’s Wisdom Circle #createamovement #leadership

So one of the things that's coming up as a theme too, you mentioned about not listening to the noise. There's, there's something to be mindful of this as well. So I did a Purdue Wisdom Circle with my students here a couple weeks ago, and one of the things I asked them is, how are you coping with all the difficulties in the world? And one of the things that somebody said, which I thought was great, she said, "I biohack." I was like, "Oh, okay, what's a biohack?" And she said, "Well, when I feel bad about something, I reach out to my friends, and so that makes me feel better." And I'm like, "Oh, that's interesting." In one sense, that's great. That's better than doing drugs or doing other things that aren't helpful for you, which is great. But I also, in that moment, I told her, and I'll share this with you too, that also means that she's numbing against this. And so I'm not saying it's wrong, I'm just saying both are there, right? To hold both of those, that we need the outlets, but also running away from it is what we did for 30 years with these kinds of things. This is why we're here. And so the apathy and stuff like that. So, part of this is— so, we had this great conversation. Ultimately, that workshop became integrating the negative. How do you integrate the negative? Sometimes you have to biohack it, but also sometimes you have to feel the hurt and the pain of it too. And so, both of those are there in our world. So, that's a tough line to walk. So, I think we're in that place.