Your Weaknesses are Your Biggest Strengths | Recovery
IGNTD
Dr. Adi and Sophie Jaffe
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🗓️ 2 April 2021
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, we’re excited to bring you a segment from a recent IGNTD Recovery group hosted by Dr. Jaffe! For help with your own recovery, check out the IGNTD Hero Recovery Program
Humans are unique animals. When compared to other mammals such as horses or calves, we’re born relatively helpless. For the first few years of our life, we rely entirely on parental figures for our survival. What at first appears to be a major disadvantage, however, has a very important evolutionary explanation: our brain development. This “weakness” is actually a byproduct of our greatest strength and the reason behind our success as a species.
Whether in recovery or not, each of us is going through our own evolution. Much as your perceived disadvantage at birth is actually one of your biggest evolutionary advantages, so too are many of your own struggles necessary pieces of your evolution as an individual. Here at IGNTD, our goal is to help you evolve as a person, turning these “weaknesses” into your biggest strengths.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Ignited Recovery podcast, a new way forward for anyone looking for answers |
| 0:07.9 | but feeling left out. If you've been searching for empowerment, triumph, and purpose, |
| 0:13.6 | you've found them right here. You won't hear the same solutions and you're not going to have |
| 0:18.8 | any excuses to fall back on because |
| 0:21.0 | ignited recovery allows heroes to rise and become their best selves. |
| 0:26.4 | I'm Dr. Adi Jaffe and I can't wait to be your guide on this journey. |
| 0:31.6 | Are you ready to become an ignited hero? What I wanted to start out today was a topic you may not have ever thought about in the context of what you came here for, but it may be something that I think will uplift and give you some sense of where you can go. |
| 0:56.4 | I'm going to start it out with a story. |
| 0:58.1 | And I don't know how many of you know that if you've grown up on a farm or if you grew up in more rural areas, you will. |
| 1:03.7 | But humans are pretty unique animals. |
| 1:07.1 | And we're unique in a lot of ways. |
| 1:08.5 | But one of the ways in which we're unique is that we're born sort of helpless. |
| 1:13.3 | You know, a horse, a calf, by the time it's born, is almost ready to just go out into the world. |
| 1:20.3 | Within hours, they can walk, within days they can kind of run around, and within weeks, they can defend themselves. |
| 1:26.5 | And they're still part of the group, but they can fend for themselves and almost all animals are born that way by the time |
| 1:33.6 | they're born they've developed enough where they can take care of themselves um humans are not like |
| 1:41.5 | that we are born completely helpless so helpless that somebody has to feed us, |
| 1:48.7 | protect us, keep us warm or cold, depending on what is going on with the weather around us. |
| 1:54.0 | We're literally unable to move for weeks, let alone walk. We're unable to walk and run for years. And by the time we can take care of |
| 2:03.2 | ourselves and defend ourselves, we're, it's, you know, it's been almost a decade since we were born. And to |
| 2:07.9 | think about that for a second, the difference between those two examples, right, being born within |
| 2:13.0 | days walking and running around or being born and then taking a decade to be able to take care of yourself. |
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