How to Deal With Adversity

The story you tell yourself about adversity determines how you will deal with it. People that have a positive explanatory style interpret adversity as local and temporary. Those with a pessimistic explanatory style, see the events as global and permanent. To help you see a path from adversity to opportunity, practice the A, B, C, D model of interpretation,. Adversity is what happened. We can't change it. Belief is our reaction to the event, which is a conscious choice. Our belief leads to a consequence. And we can dispute our belief because that's all it is.

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