Elogio a la adversidad

0:00 Bomba, why the affective relationships I have are not stable. I like assertiveness, because it invites us to prudence that what should motivate our word is always love you are and that is already the basis to go out to conquer many goals, to fight, to give a better version and enjoy life fully. You know, today I' d like to praise adversity. And I want to do this because I would love for every one of you who listens to me at this time to change your attitude to this situation, to this reality.

0:55 We all live in the midst of adversity. We don' t need to go out and consciously look for problems, difficulties it, adversity emerges in our daily lives. We constantly find it unintentionally We could say that one of the characteristics of the human being is to live in the midst of problems, in the midst of difficulties, in the midst of adversities. And he said this because I think our anthropological condition demands it. We are incarnate spirits and that makes there are desires, but there are also limitations. This implies a freedom in the imagination that is not reciprocated in materiality, where there are always some points that we cannot realize. But on top of that, we are fragile beings and being fragile, we are faced with pain, suffering. Yes, it hurts us, it hurts us constantly and that is an adversity, but also because of our limitations. We don' t have all the resources,

2:29 we don' t have all the capabilities, we are constantly facing frustration, we feel that we deserved more, we feel that we should achieve more, but that it wasn' t and we have to understand that our contingency leads us not to achieve everything we want, not to be able to have everything we want. In these I have been thinking of so many people who have stories of overcoming, people who are successful today, some of them athletes, other artists, other political leaders, who went through harsh adversities, in their childhood, in their family relationships, in being unable to have opportunities, but who were able to overcome them, who were able to overcome them and who managed to be successful men and women. I believe that we must be clear that when diversity is confronted with correct attitudes, it becomes a springboard, that when diversity is confronted with the right work it fosters the development of the

4:03 skills necessary to achieve the fullness in any of the life processes we are living. I know that adversity has a bad reputation, not only because of the pain it causes, not only because it makes us feel incapable, not only because it corners us sometimes, but also because an idealized account of comfort has been made. And that idealized account of comfort has made that difficulties, that adversities, that problems have been despised, have been looked at with a leave of are a disgrace, of are the worst and the truth is not at all like this, of course it hurts and of course that makes us cry, of course it is complicated. But there are opportunities there too. So well there are situations that can make us grow integrally. Therefore, at this moment I would like to propose three attitudes to you to face adversities, from the smallest to the most complex, from the simplest to the greatest. Three attitudes that, I believe, can help us live in continuous growth. The first attitude is to accept that life is full of adversities and that we can

5:40 only begin the process of overcoming them if we assume them as they are. What I' m saying is don' t excuse yourself from diversity, don ' t deny diversity, don' t tell yourself lies about problems look at them, just like they are. To do this it is necessary to describe them, For them, it is necessary to understand and accept them. Because not because you dream that they don' t exist ceases to exist, they are there and if you want them to really become an opportunity for growth.

6:23 You need to accept it as it is and that implies description, that implies understanding. Listen live the reality, as it is do not fool yourself, do not lie, do not fall into those speeches, that all they do is alienate us and, in that way, not prepare us to overcome the problems and adversities that we have. The second attitude is to understand them as an opportunity. Yes, to understand them as an opportunity and not simply as a disgrace. Here we have to make a change of mind, a change of thought, a change of paradigm of life. We can' t go on in the simplicity that there are good things and there are bad things.

7:23 Not in the good. There are also situations that can lead you to suffer and in the bad that we call bad. There are also possibilities of joy, pleasure, growth. So we need a more complex look at reality and we need to find life lessons in that problem, in that growth problem. They say it constantly today when we leave the comfort zone Thanks to the diversities, we are growing, we are moving forward. I remember a teacher who told me Alberto, if you' re in a rubber ball, the only chance to move forward is to get out of the center and go to one of the extremes so you can move. Then we need you to change your gaze in the face of diversity. Don' t complain, so much don ' t cry, so much analise understand it and try to propose ways of solution, ways to get ahead. The third attitude. Obviously, you have to have a plan, because adversity is not going to be a magical opportunity.

8:41 You have to come up with a plan. You have to understand how you' re gonna get over it, how you' re gonna get through it. And for this it is fundamental to face the first cause of diversity, because many of us try to solve problems from secondary waves, and the only thing that we achieve is that the problem either reproduces or transforms. Then it' s important to make a plan. You understand what this is about, you' ve already accepted that reality, because make a plan, make a plan that must be accompanied by training, that is, actions. I ' m going to work on this and do it with discipline and do it with strength and do it with intelligence so that it' s really what you ' re looking for. Don' t forget. No one has triumphed permanently without overcoming the difficulties. That is why it is not understood that it is believed that only comfort is necessary. Being happy and living in well- being means being able to overcome all the barriers that life creates for us. That ' s why today I want you to have that attitude that allows you to overcome. In fact, for me it is a spiritual attitude, because it is the attitude of transcendent you know bo