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BITESIZE #72 | Jo Konta: Pain x resistance = suffering

The High Performance Podcast

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The Power of Resilience

I think it was understanding that actually whatever feelings that I'm feeling, whatever, however overwhelmed I feel, I'm fully equipped to deal with it. A formula that he gave me is pain times resistance equals suffering. So if I'm in pain, let's say out of 10, and I'm resisting out of ten, my suffering is going to be 100. But if my resistance is zero, then my suffering is zero. And so I think that kind of gave me hope as well when I was feeling really down or overwhelmed, stressed, upset, anything. Knowing that this is not going to stay like this. I will feel different at some point.

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