March 23, 2017
Interview with Dr. Norman Rosenthal, author of the book The Gift Of Adversity
Mike Carruthers:
Adversity; tough times they happen to all of us.
Dr. Norman Rosenthal:
Adversity is a necessary part of life that it happens in 3 contexts; bad luck, bad judgment and when you voluntarily take on the adversity.
Psychiatrist Dr. Norman Rosenthal, author of the book The Gift Of Adversity, says more often than you might think adversity comes with a silver lining.
But one has to be mindful of the silver linings because if you aren’t you’re going to wallow in the adversity and you’re not going to find what can be learned, what can be gained, how it can strengthen and benefit you going forward.
Believing that good may come from an adversity can actually help you get through it.
Often times in adversity you don’t see the gift while the adversity’s actually happening. But if you know (because you look back) that adversity often yields gifts then that can act as a little flame (of even in the darkest times) to know that someday that when this is over something good might come out of it.
Admittedly not every adversity has a silver lining.
But I am surprised that how many adversities, where people take the adversities and grow and become stronger and give. Often time’s altruism (strangely enough giving to other people) turns out to be the fulcrum of recovery.
