When Life Gets Hard - The Egg, Coffee & Potato Story

So, Emily, what's been up lately? It's like the whole world's crumbling down the way you're acting. Has everything been okay lately?

I'm just really stressed. I lost my job, and honestly, I don't know how I'm gonna pay my bills this month, and it's putting strain on my relationship.

Can I show you something? Do you have a few minutes?

Okay.

Check this out.

Voila. So let me explain what happened here. So the potatoes, the eggs, and the coffee all went through the exact same adversity. They all went through the boiling hot water, but each of them reacted differently to that adversity. See, the eggs went in extremely fragile and soft, easy to break. But the adversity of that hot water toughened them up. The potatoes went through the exact same thing, but they went in really hard, really tough. And look at what the adversity did to it. It made them soft. It made them crumble under that adversity. But something really unique happened with the coffee here. See, the coffee took that adversity and turned itself into something completely different. Something amazing. See, we're all going to have tough times in our lives, but we get to choose how we react to them. And it's up to you to decide. Are you going to crumble in the face of adversity, have it break you like the potatoes? Are you going to have that adversity make you toughen up and make you harder? Or are you going to be like the coffee? Are you going to be able to learn from this adversity that you're going through and allow it to transform you? Because here's the thing. I know what you're going through right now is not easy. But if you decide to learn from this situation, it will transform you. So if I can give you the biggest tip, try to be like the coffee.