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Pain is inevitable, but suffering is optional. The speaker uses a deck-of-cards metaphor to argue that hardship builds confidence: when you've faced difficulty before, you know you can handle what comes next.
Pain is inevitable, but suffering is optional. The speaker uses a deck-of-cards metaphor to argue that hardship builds confidence: when you've faced difficulty before, you know you can handle what comes next.
There is one thing that no one escapes, and that's pain. Suffering is a choice, but pain is going to be part of life at times. You think someone who's got it so much better than you, you don't want to trade with them. A friend of mine once said years ago, he goes, you know, if life was a deck of cards, 52 cards, and each one represented a different life, and one was somebody who seemed to have this beautiful life, when somebody else was somebody who was blind, he went, would you really put your card back of this life and pick another one? How many have been through sh— in your life enough times now, like, and let's say in your business, that now when shit happens, you've done it so many times, it's like, you may not like it, it may seem stressful, but you fucking know you'll find a way.
Tony Robbins Helps Her Use the Power of Her Own Mind to Manifest A Better Life
