Suffering and Success

“One cannot grow without pain. One cannot improve without it. Suffering drives us to achieve great things.” Joe Abercombie

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In your own words, what is the main idea of the quote above by the British writer and film editor Joe Abercombie?

“If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.” (Albert Einstein)

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Getting Personal

Have you ever achieved something or grown as a person as result of having experienced something painful? What was it?

Do you think you would have achieved what you did if you had not first gone through an experience of suffering?

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INSIGHTS for SUCCESS

“Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life.” (Angelina Jolie)

“The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.” (Ben Okri)

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By Gary and Esther Berkley

Gary and Esther Berkley are the authors of "Whatever You Become, Become Your Best - The College and Graduate Guide to Wisdom for Success in Life." Check it out at www.amazon.com/dp/B09593L5FT

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