Two speakers argue that painful experiences can become sources of strength and growth if you stop seeing yourself as a victim and do the work to find their meaning. Speaker B describes how childhood bullying and a stutter became sources of resilience. Drugs numb you from discovering what your suffering teaches.
My overall theme is don't settle and don't be a, don't be a victim in this process. What if everything in your life happened for a reason? What if there was a higher purpose, but it's your job to find it? I believe life is always happening for me, not to me, but it doesn't always look that way. So I got to dig, I got to find, and sometimes it takes it. I don't know, in your life, have you had any experiences where you went through that were brutal, that were painful, that you'd never want to go through again?. But maybe 5, 10 years later, you look back and go, man, I'm so glad that happened. I wouldn't want to go through it, but made me so much stronger, made me care more. Can you relate to that in some way?
Yeah, bullies, stuttered as a kid. Yeah, brutal.
Yeah, but it made you stronger, it made you care more, made you be a different person. And I look at the emotion in you even now when you think about it. You're near tears just even thinking about it. So I think it's important for people to realize that if they go back and really look at their life, if they don't go on drugs and alter their state, it's You've altered your state, you'll never come up with a better meaning. But if you stay off drugs and you stay straight and you push for it, sooner or later you're going to find there is a benefit that far exceeds the pain you went through.
Tony Robbins Helps Her Use the Power of Her Own Mind to Manifest A Better Life
