Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls the most massive characters are seared with scars Khalil Gibran BrainyQuote Scientific Evidence Posttraumatic growth The suffering of traumatic lifeevents can lead to personal development ID: 797931
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Slide1
The Art of Suffering
How it can actually help us succeed
Slide2“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.”
--Khalil
Gibran (BrainyQuote)
Slide3Scientific Evidence
“Post-traumatic growth”The suffering of traumatic life-events can lead to personal development
People
actually gained some significant benefits from the suffering they
experienced
Steve Taylor, “Can suffering make us stronger?” Psychology Today, Web.
Slide4Study at NY’s University of BuffaloStudy control group made up of 2,398 people suffering from chronic back pain.
Those with some past adversities were less functionally impaired compared to those with a great deal of past trauma or no major traumas at all
Tibi
Puiu
, “Going through tough times makes you stronger, study says.” Z M E Science. Dec. 17, 2011.
Slide5Just enough diversity can help a person cope with daily living better
Susan
Kuchinskas
. “Emotional Well-being: the benefits of adversity.” WebMD Magazine. Web.
Best
copers
: Just enough
a
dversity
Worst
copers
: Having as many as 15 stressors a day
Ok
copers
: People who are never challenged by adversity
Slide6Real life heroes
Nelson Mandela “I learned that courage was not the absence of fear but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid but he who conquers that fear.”
Spent over 27 years
in prison then became first black president of South Africa
Slide7President Abraham Lincoln
Experienced severe depression throughout lifetimeJosh Shenk, Lincoln biographer, wrote “He was sad, often withdrawing into himself but it gave him the vision to look beyond the horrors of the Civil War toward a greater good. In times of great crisis, it may be the strongest character forged for leadership.”
“Lincoln’s melancholy: how depression challenged a president and fueled his greatness.” NAMI. September 2005. Web.
Slide8Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopherSuffered mental breakdown at age 45
Believed it made him a better philosopher“I doubt whether such suffering improves a man; but I know that it makes him deeper.”
Steve Taylor, “Can suffering make us stronger?” Psychology Today, Web.
Slide9Lessons from Comic books
Nearly every comic book superhero experienced trauma or tragedy that led them to become “super” in some waySuperman
Spiderman
Batman
Slide10These stories have endured because people need to believe that the suffering life throws at us can make us stronger if only we let it
.
It is choosing to use it as a positive that makes all the
difference.