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Steve Magness on Doing Hard Things and Why We Get Resilience Wrong | All Great Stories Have One Thing In Common

The Daily Stoic

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What's the Easiest Exceuse?

Our brains are master story tellers, they will give us whatever excuse works. And i think part of it is, like when we're in situations as we have to slice and dice up what's real and what's not. What is my brain freeing out and trying to protect me on versus what is,. eh, this isn't really a big deal, or, this is coming from thi insecurity that i've never dealt with or faced before.

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