How?

Here is a remarkable personal story from a series called How We Survive. It really puts a lot of things into perspective.

Or it should.

But how easily we forget. How easy to start looking at our own relatively minor issues, and feeling sorry for ourselves.

Why do we do that, in the light of other peoples much harder struggles? And does it help us get anywhere with our own battles?

Clearly not.

Like the remarkable lady in the story, we need to be able to learn to look at the bigger picture. Her summary of how she survived, is actually a good place to start to learn How? to thrive, when we can apply it in the privileged position of not having any life threatening situations to deal with.

Read the story. This advice comes backed by some serious authority.

“You get over your little self, then you get your instinct to work, then you get to connect with other people and then you achieve stuff.”