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Personal Growth are Life’s Dojo: Transforming Challenges into Growth Opportunities.
First of all, don’t waste your time and energy on a job you hate and where you only daydream about the day you’ll leave. This approach is one of the most toxic and inefficient.
It’s important to understand that the issue isn’t necessarily the work itself, but how we perceive it and react to it. Imagine entering a dojo to train in martial arts. There’s no reason to get upset when you take hits or receive blows during training because that’s part of the learning and development process.
The words of Epictetus are crucial in this context:
“It’s not about the events themselves, but about how we interpret them.”
In a dojo, you learn to fight, and fighting often involves taking hits. It’s normal to encounter difficulties and feel pain, but these can be sources of motivation to become more attentive and better at facing challenges.
What if we viewed our job as a dojo, a place where we train to improve at what we do? If you don’t like a particular…
