Brianna Wiest - The Mountain Is You_ Transforming Self-Sabotage Into Self-Mastery (2020)

116 BRIANNA WIEST
It makes things interesting. Part of the human narrative is
wanting something to overcome.
The trick is keeping it in balance. Choosing to exit your
comfort zone and endure pain for a worthy cause.
Focusing on problems that are real problems in the world,
like hunger or politics or whatever else.
But most importantly, it’s about staying engaged with
what we can control in life, which is most things if you
really think about it. Antifragile things need tension, resistance,
adversity, and pain to break and transform. We
get this by deeply communing with life and being part
of it, rather than fearing our emotions and sitting on the
sidelines.
You can’t stay there forever, nor do you really want to. Embracing
the grit of it all was what you were made for. Lean
in and start living.
NEW CHANGE CREATES
ADJUSTMENT SHOCK
Of all the things that nobody tells you about life, that you
might not experience instantaneous happiness after a positive
life change is perhaps the most confusing.
The truth about your psyche is this: Anything that is new,