With all the focus on success it’s easy to overlook the valuable lessons we can learn from the more difficult parts of our journey. Below, you’ll find some very interesting insights from some of the most fascinating members of the community.
Luciana Gómez
Suffering taught me patience, discipline, and the understanding that the world doesn’t end when things don’t go my way. The sun really does rise the next day. I often think about something a mentor once told me: “In this industry, you’ll receive far more no’s than yes’s. That’s just how it is. Read more>>
Eric St. John
Suffering and success, I believe, are two sides of the same coin. I don’t think there is really any success without some form of suffering. It’s in the suffering that we are forced to look within, go deeper, look at things more closely and possibly from a new perspective…and suffering seems to be the root of true growth. Read more>>
Al Nouri
Suffering inherently bestows resilience, and often subconsciously endows hope. While sweet, the feeling of success is cheap because it’s fleeting; conversely, pain and suffering live on. Even through enduring and overcoming suffering, the memory of it never fades, unlike success which is a fickle muse. Read more>>
Shanny
Suffering teaches you mindset, endurance, and what you are really made of. Are you going to go to fetal position and cry, or are you going to do something about it? Suffering gives you perspective. Read more>>
Robert Rossi
I really appreciate the Bob Dylan line that there’s ‘no success like failure…and failure is no success at all.’ Suffering clued me in to the temporal aspects of this world. And it made success sweeter at least insofar as not taking anything for granted. Read more>>
