Stop Running From Adversity
Sigmund Freud was paradoxically right and simultaneously wrong.
Freud argued that human behaviour was driven by two great forces; the pursuit of pleasure and the avoidance of pain.
Vast amounts of modern psychology was shaped by this paradigm.

However, I want to make a subtle adjustment. I want to suggest that the avoidance of pain can often by enormously problematic. Today, I have been faced with a complex series of difficult circumstances. I won’t bore you with the details but right now, life for me has it’s rather genuine hardships. But, what am I learning?
I’m learning that the less you seek to run from adversity the faster you grow. The more you run toward the pain, the faster you grown. The more you embrace the difficulty, the faster you grow.
It seems to me that most people spend their entire life trying to organise their life to be as comfortable as possible. They do so much to avoid pain and challenge and hardship. In the end they get exactly what they want. They avoid pain. But the cost is huge. They miss all the growth along the way.
Whatever you are facing in your life right now…stop running in the other direction. Muscle up and face the hardship. Muscle up and face the pain. You are not on this planet to be comfortable. You are on this planet to kick-ass and contribute and grow and love and cry and suffer and change and build and genuinely be awesome.
Please, do yourself a favour. Stop running from adversity. Start running toward it.
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