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A Hard Life Is A Good Life

Name: A Hard Life Is A Good Life
Uploaded: 2024-10-13T14:00:41+00:00
Duration: 40 s
Channel: Shanli Liu, CPA, CTP
Description: In this brief motivational monologue, the speaker imagines a conversation with the creator of the universe before birth, asking to be endowed with…

13 Oct 2024 · 1 min

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In this brief motivational monologue, the speaker imagines a conversation with the creator of the universe before birth, asking to be endowed with specific virtues—courage, patience, and wisdom. The creator responds that each virtue must be forged through hardship: monsters to conquer for courage, endless labor for patience, and crushing failures for wisdom. When the speaker requests an easy, "good" life, the creator explains that a good life is not defined by ease but by the character formed through struggle, likening it to a blacksmith’s steel being measured by its strength after fire and hammer. The central message is that a hard life, filled with challenges, is the path to becoming a good person.

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Imagine you talk to the creator of the universe before birth and pick the person you get to become. You say, I want to be the most courageous. The creator replies and says, well, then I will give you monsters to terrify you so that you can conquer them. Then you say, well, I want to be patient. Well, then I will make you work harder and longer so you can learn to wait. I want to be wise. And the creator replies, then I will give you failures that will crush your spirit so you can learn the value of judgment. You then say, sounds like a rough life. Can you give me a good life? Creator replies, just like we measure the quality of a blacksmith by the strength of his steel, I measure you by what you are at the end, not fire and the hammer it took to make you. A good life isn't a life that's easy. A good life is a life that makes you into a good person. And that, my son, is a hard life.