Richard Canfield argues that your worst obstacles are the raw material for your biggest goals. He shares suicidal thoughts at age 10 and explains how reframing that pain led him to help others. Ryan Holiday and Marcus Aurelius both saw suffering as fuel, not waste.
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Think about it, back as a 10 year old, I was ready to take my life. I mean, I was like, you know, forget, forget it. What, what value do I have? You get stuck in your old story and, and I feel like there's a lot of people watching this today that they may be stuck in their story. They may have gone through a relationship crash or a financial ending and they think, what's the point? But I'll just tell you that, like, in my belief, you're here for a reason and you are here to be a blessing to other people. So as you push through your own pain, that is actually the path. And I'm a big fan of Ryan Holiday. The obstacle is the way or Marcus Aurelius. What stands in the way becomes the way. I truly believe that your dark night of the soul right now is actually the raw material. Dan Sullivan calls it that our obstacles are the raw material for us achieving our goal. So just start celebrating the obstacles and the resistance because there is a path after.