Adversity, challenges, unexpected problems in life are very important including failures, rejections, embarrassments because those are the things that would inspire us to change and improve. By default we would like to stay still and avoid uncertainty and there is nothing bad in it. But the real growth and achievement lies in overcoming the obstacles and confronting our fears.
For us grow from our failures and setbacks, we need to learn to derive a meaning from negative events that happen to us. If we do not take time to make sense of the situation and learn from it to become better, then you would stay where you are.
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