Hey, welcome back to the personality hacker podcast. My name is Joel Mark Witt.

And I'm Antonia Dodge. On today's show, we want to talk about the struggle you are facing in your life.

Well, maybe not the specific struggle.

But we all face struggle.

And when I say struggle, I don't mean challenges.

There's challenges we all face. You know, maybe the

challenge of raising children, the challenge of finding your next career move,

the challenge of getting through school or college.

Yeah, the challenges we all face are basics of life.

And then there's struggle.

And it's almost as if struggle is our relationship to challenge because we all have challenges

right but any one of those things I just mentioned or other things I didn't mention

could also be struggles that we have where we elect to have a I don't know if the

combative is the right word but a but a difficult relationship with those challenges and it ends up being struggle.

So something like, you know, let's say you have a certain political ideology and there's something, you know, people are in office that you don't like and it's a challenge, that challenge can turn into a struggle, you know, a resistance you have, a struggle you have, something you're, you're

frustrated about, you're rising up against, your

relationship to that challenge that would just be a normal challenge now

changes and it's more intense for you and it's harder to let it go it's harder to move through your life

without it being so intense all the time.

Like the emotional response you have to the challenge that

the challenge was going to take some resource or a certain percentage of resource,

the fact that you have this emotional reaction or response to it

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