CHAPTER 10
Being Tested
The best moments usually occur when a person’s body or mind is stretched to its limits in a voluntary effort to accomplish something difficult and worthwhile.
—MIHALY CSIKSZENTMIHALYI
If you make a commitment larger than your own life—a commitment that is beyond what you know you’re capable of—you will, for sure, be tested. And if that commitment is in service of life, you will pass those tests because it’s not about you. If it were about you, then you would give up and try something else. When it’s not about you, the commitment reshapes you into someone who can meet and prevail in that test. It’s in the process of delivering the desired result that you gain the skills you need, that you are forged into the person you ...
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