What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Stronger
Academy of Ideas
Academy of Ideas
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🗓️ 17 August 2024
⏱️ 16 minutes
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“The warrior’s approach is to say “yes” to life: “yea” to it all…Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging. Negativism to the pain and ferocity of life is negativism to life. We are not there until we can say “yea” to it all.” Joseph Campbell, Reflections on the Art […]
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| 0:32.2 | of our members. The warrior's approach is to say yes to life, yeah, to it all. Opportunities to find deeper powers |
| 0:42.4 | within ourselves come when life seems most challenging. Negativism to the pain and ferocity of life |
| 0:49.1 | is negativism to life. We are not there until we can say yeah to it all. Just as the wood of a tree is strengthened |
| 0:57.9 | by the storm, in the life of man, adversity is the sculptor of a strong and resilient character. |
| 1:05.0 | Most people, however, fear adversity. They flee from it and believe that if it becomes too |
| 1:10.4 | severe, they will not be strengthened |
| 1:12.2 | by it, but broken. In this video, we explore how most people underestimate the degree of adversity |
| 1:19.1 | they can withstand, and overlook the fact that even traumatic experiences can be the catalyst for |
| 1:25.3 | personal growth. Out of life's school of war, said Nietzsche, what doesn't kill me makes me stronger. |
| 1:34.7 | Bad things happen. This is one of life's guarantees. Most of the time the hardships that |
| 1:40.5 | confront us are minor and manageable, but at certain times adversity strikes that shakes |
| 1:46.0 | the very foundations of our being. |
| 1:48.7 | These are the experiences that are so intense or tragic that they are characterized as traumatic. |
| 1:54.6 | In his book, What Doesn't Kill Us, the psychologist Stephen Joseph notes that, researchers |
| 1:59.9 | have estimated that 75% of all people experience |
| 2:03.6 | some form of trauma in life. The loss or suffering of a loved one, the diagnosis of an illness, |
| 2:09.6 | the pain of divorce or separation, the shock of an accident, assault, or environmental disaster. |
| 2:15.6 | Around a fifth of all people are likely to experience a potentially |
| 2:19.6 | traumatic event within a given year. By its very definition, trauma is unexpected, unpredictable, |
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