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Stronger in places we've been broken

Published Mar 11, 2025, 5:00 PM

We are stronger in places that we've been broken. This concept comes up time and time again all the way back to the stoics and even now into the modern day writers and philosophers. 

There has to be something to that. 

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Hey, team gnas A here, Welcome back to the Building bet A Humans Project podcast. I heard a quote, or I read a quote recently by Ernest Hemingway, and it said, we're stronger in the places that we've been broken. We're stronger in the places that we've been broken. I love this theory, and I've talked about this before in different context. It's very much what the stoics believe. It's very much in alignment with this idea of anti fragility, just a psychological idea that unlike resilience where we just bounce back, we become stronger because of the things we go through. And then I think, if that's a psychological theory, if that's something that Ernest Hemingway spoke about, if that's something that stoics were talking about hundreds of years ago, there has to be something in that for us. We live in a society that, whether we like it to admit it or not, is a very soft society. There are a lot of people out there that act tough and that think they're tough, but they're physically, mentally and emotionally rocked when something doesn't go their way. When the world doesn't give them the thing that they're after. When when they get a no let alone, when they actually get kicked in the guts and have the wind taken out of them. And the truth is this, We've all had that happen to us. I'm an incredibly positive person. I try and stay positive and upbeat all the time, but I get knocked around the same as the next person. There are times where I don't feel as good. There are times when I've been rejected from a business idea or a relationship in relation to businesses, or from the customer journey right through to my interpersonal relationships. There's all these things that happen, and we have the idea that, oh, this is unfair and the world's against me. And what if what an ernest having Way says is true. What if we are stronger in the places that we've been broken, so that every time that we've been damaged or broken in some way, we repair ourselves, we bounce back, and we're better for the experience. Now, it doesn't mean that you have to enjoy that experience at the time that you're having it. I'm not saying that at all, But what it does mean is that you get to make the most of life knowing that, hey, this is pretty hard, this is tough. I don't like this, but I know I'm going to be better as a result of this. You know, I think about good leaders in the military or in business. They don't become good leaders because everything's gone their way. They become good leaders because they've experienced a lot. They've been kicked around, they've been rolled up and thrown out with the latest garbage when whatever needs to change, and that's not for us anymore. Thinking about with sporting coaches and so on, we get cast aside at the drop of a hat, but we bounce back. We become better, We learn new ways of dealing with the hardships and the challenges. We learn to head some of those challenges off before they even happen. So again, we're stronger in the places that we've been broken. We do bounce back, we aren't fragile, and we become a lot harder to break the next time.

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