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I'm going to start today's episode off with a quote.

This is from Seneca, and he wrote,

I judge you unfortunate because you've never lived through misfortune.

You've passed through life without an opponent.

No one can ever know what you're capable of, not even you. A brilliant member of the Year World Within Team, Ashley, she sent me a kind of a thought experiment the other day.

And she asked, if you're choosing between two trees, right, the exact same type of tree,

height, everything, one-to-one, which one is stronger, right?

And one of these trees exists in a very turbulent, you know, climate.

High winds, a lot of fluctuation in weather, extreme temperatures, low temperatures, high temperatures,

versus that same tree in a, let's just say,

more mild, consistent, way less harsh climate.

Which one do you think will be stronger?

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