Seneca On The Value Of Past Hardship

In this lesson, I discuss a quote by Seneca on the value of having encountered difficulties and chaos in the past. I then explain how we ought to read quotes and how you can relate this lesson to your own life. If we never come close to our limits, we will always lack the confidence to cope with future hardships.

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Love you…will take with me this month. My birthday month…😃I am 🐉 dragon. ☮️

As a lifelong Judoka, former Royal Marines commando and full time martial arts coach I can vouch for the truth of this.

Seneca, as usual, is on point.
There are so many lessons, physical and emotional, to be wrung from each defeat.

In fact if you read Dr Kano's book "Mind Over Muscle" it becomes clear that he formulated Judo with character development in mind.

I always ask the kids I coach, "what did you learn?"

They know my view...

If you lost but learned from it then you have also won.

If you lost but learned nothing then you double lost.

If you won but learned nothing then you missed the opportunity to win twice.

After all...

Bis vincit qui se vincit in victoria.

Cheers for another excellent piece of work Jon!
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Loved this..amazing. I continue to rise again in defiance..thank you Jon 🌅🦉

Wonderful!

Growth has come to me through adversity, knowledge, kindness, sympathy, motivation are all a result of the challenges I have faced.