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Wright Thompson On The Costs Of Greatness Throughout History

The Daily Stoic

CHAPTER

The Adversity Paradox

I empathize with what it's like to be the underdog, right? I seek to make a world that's more fair and just and easy And then there's often another approach to adversity, which is the opposite. You have to so harden yourself to get through that adversity That it makes you less empathetic, right? Clarence Thomas is a good example of this he blew out his Achilles playing basketball in court above Supreme Court. He told me all these stories My wife finishes shopping Still on the phone with him getting the car still on the call with him. She's overjoyed. Now I can't get him off the phone.

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