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Hard Challenges Unlock Inner Superpowers

The Stoic Handbook by Jon Brooks

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How to Deal With a Challenge

When we face a challenge, instead of seeing it as something that knocks us back, see it as a training device to practise acting in the world with more virtue. If you are struggling with des perhaps you have a pornography addiction, write thus a classic one in the modern world. Or perhaps you are over eating or spending too much time on social media. When the trigger comes up that tells you to engage, you have two options. Option a is lust or the desire, an option b is the self restraint. Which do you choose?

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