Good morning and welcome to the Increaser Impact Podcast. I'm Justin Sua episode

1,810. One of the key character traits, one of the many character traits of

elite performance is the ability to learn, become an learning machine and not

just learning from the tough times, but to learn from the good times as well.

For those of you who are going through a difficult time in particular, one thing

that makes learning hard are the negative emotions. You may have an experience

that is not ideal and you play it over and over and over in your mind and you

don't, and as a result, you don't just experience it emotionally one time, but

you experience it, have a negative experience over and over again multiple times

because you keep replaying it over. Now the antidote to this is number one is

you're going to feel how you're going to feel. That's human, that's normal, you're

going to have that happen, but the moment you could start to stop and pull out

lessons to ask yourself how it makes you stronger, well you can do better next

time, things you would have done differently, and you start taking out the

emotions. Now you're not going to completely take out the emotions, you're a

human being, but if you can start to learn from those experiences and learn

from those decisions that you made or that you chose not to make or you did

a different direction that you would have gone have if you have the opportunity

again, then you're able to pull out the meat, the lessons from that

adversity. And so my question to you is what adversity have you hit lately that

you can learn from? Another kind of cool way to a different way to ask that

question is what are some lessons that you are leaving on the table because you

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