When you get bad news, is your instinct to feel helpless, or to try to chip in and be helpful in any way that you can?
Share why if you wish.
Asking — and answering — life's interesting questions
When you get bad news, is your instinct to feel helpless, or to try to chip in and be helpful in any way that you can?
Share why if you wish.
Knowing when you will die would allow you the opportunity to prepare, physically, emotionally, and socially. However, knowing could be paralyzing as well. Would you choose to know, if you could?
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In life, there are times when you experience a loss. How can you take the sting of that loss and channel it into a win?
No matter how successful you happen to be, there will inevitably be times where you experience a setback. Or maybe your life has more than the usual number of setbacks.
How you respond to these obstacles can be crucial. In fact, it can be the difference between long-term growth and stagnation. Being able to channel your pain, anger, misery and unhappiness into productive action is important. Even if it doesn’t bring about eventual success — and it might — it can help with your outlook.
Listen to a podcast where Michael and Lee discuss a related question: ‘How do you define success?’ We also discuss a bonus question: ‘Is happiness the most important purpose in life?’
Not that it is easy. A loss can be devastating, and it can leave you feeling powerless, even when you aren’t. It can sap your energy and your motivation.
So what can you do in that instance? Are there any tips that have helped you in the past? Are there strategies that you can think of that might help you recharge, in order to fight another day? And not just to fight, but to come out on top in the future?
How can you turn a loss into a win?
Related questions: How do you deal with loss? How can we turn sadness into constructive action? Why bother? What can you control? When is it useful to fail?
When you were young, did you enjoy time with your parents or your grandparents more? If you are older, do you enjoy be a grandparent more than being a parent?
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If you watch TV, you probably have opinions about what is the best TV show of all time. What is your choice?
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