Welcome to Your World Within Daily.

I'm Eddie Pinero.

In this episode, we're going to talk about adversity

and how we're presented with two options,

to quit because of the situation or win despite the situation.

The So what do you do when things get difficult?

When the world feels chaotic and the walls feel like they're crashing down around you,

what is your response?

Because we're,

we're pulled in two ways, right? I think the initial response is the sort of collapse under the pressure to think, well, this is going on. So it's an easy way to rationalize stopping or doing

something else or quitting. It's easy to tell a story of failure.

It's easy to rationalize not doing the difficult thing.

But the opportunity, the power, the transformation comes from being one of the few that when things really seem dire,

to not back down but get excited about the prospect of winning because of the situation,

right? Understanding that very few people can and are willing to go down that road.

And that is strictly the differentiator.

When most crumble because of a situation, you build.

And I remember the first time I learned that concept, I talk about it a lot.

It's always, you know, at the forefront of my decision making, I think about it all the time. I attribute, you know, at the forefront of my decision-making, I think about it all the time.

I attribute, you know, all the good things that have happened in my life to this concept.

Being, you know, week one, as a rower in college, and, you know, going through this grueling workout like I'd never had in my life and feeling sorry for

myself and my coach is being like, look, this is, this is part for the course. If you want to be,

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