TL; DR: If it’s easy, it’s (almost always) suspect.
Purposeful living — building things (a career, a family, a boat) is challenging.
We have been been conditioned to believe in the false narrative that life is easy for ‘everybody else,’ and if any of us finds growth to be challenging, it is a personal fault.
Learning well — really well — is challenging. Gaining self awareness is challenging. Doing well in school, searching for internships and jobs, succeeding at work in ways that give us a sense of purpose and satisfaction — these are all meant to be challenging.
Our culture has trained us to believe that unless it is easy, we are doing something wrong — a slippery slope to we are ‘wrong’ in our very being.
The opposite is most often the truth. Anything that has worth and merit — a well written paper, a well done project — is going to be challenging.
Let us teach, and practice #discomforttolerance and #resilience. Let us learn and teach facing challenges and strategizing how to work through them.
AlkaDevika Project Solutions (ADPS), LLC. 