Problems constitute a sign of life.

The more problems you have, the more alive you are.

And that is the quote of the day.

Welcome back to the quote of the day show.

I'm your host Sean Croxson of Sean Croxson.com.

Today we've got Norman Vincent Peel on the show.

Of course, he is the author of many classic books, including his most classic,

the power of positive thinking.

And this clip probably goes back to the 1950s, 1960s.

And it's a perfect piggyback on yesterday's episode where Les Brown was talking about pain.

And our pain is unavoidable.

It's part of life, but pain is there to make us stronger.

Norman Vincent Peel today is talking about problems, how we are always going to have problems.

If you don't have problems, it probably means that you're not alive.

And it's really interesting because the way that we perceive our problems is really important.

Later on this week on the Sean Croxson sessions, my interview podcast,

you're going to hear from Dr. Daniel Freeland.

One thing that we're going to talk about is that the negative health implications of stress

are not truly due to stress itself.

It's due to the perception of the stress.

And so we can choose to perceive stress as a threat, or we can choose to perceive stress as a challenge.

And it's two completely different things.

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