With all the focus on success it’s easy to overlook the valuable lessons we can learn from the more difficult parts of our journey. Below, you’ll find some very interesting insights from some of the most fascinating members of the community.
Geoffrey Evans
Suffering taught me one major thing: Never be afraid to ask for help. For years, I struggled with finding a stable workplace where I felt I would be a cultural and talented fit. It was a silent battle. Some days I starved. Some days I felt useless. It was a never ending spiral of rejection. Read more>>
Fernanda Uribe – Horta
Suffering is like a personal Japanese martial arts sensei — strict, succinct, and sharp as a sword. It knows your deepest weaknesses and darkest shadows. At first, it may seem like a great disadvantage, even an enemy, but in time, it’s revealed as one of the greatest teachers. It pushes you to confront what you most resist, carving away fear until only truth remains. Read more>>
Danilo Villanueva
Suffering taught me perseverance; to keep moving and sometimes even to double down. During the worst of COVID, I was juggling both my advertising career and MAKINA. It was a difficult time for everyone, business owners and employees alike. Small to medium-sized businesses were closing, and people were losing jobs left and right. Read more>>
Krystal Hudson
Suffering taught me a different perspective on life all together. Mostly helped me see a lot of the people around me clearly. I think it cleanses away a lot of things that are built on a rocky foundation, including the parts of your life where you’re not living in your truth. Read more>>
Lauren Eastman
Success taught me how to move forward. Suffering taught me how to be still. Success showed me the rewards of effort, whether in applause, a title, or a moment long-awaited, arrives. Suffering left me with the raw, unedited version of myself, who had to decide whether I was still worthy without the validation. Read more>>
Claribel Tovar
Suffering taught me something success never could: what real happiness means When I was younger, I thought freedom meant doing whatever I wanted. And once I had the chance I said “yes” to every opportunity, every project, every experience — even the dangerous ones — because ¨You Only Live Once ¨! Read more>>
Mason/Luna
Success will never teach you what it takes to pull yourself out of a truly challenging situation. I don’t even call it suffering — for me, it’s adversity. And it’s in those moments of adversity that you are truly tested: are you a warrior or ordinary? Are you going to cheat the grind or not? Read more>>
Teresa Fernandez
Like everyone, I’ve faced my share of trials and triumphs. In my personal life, I confronted a cancer diagnosis in the first trimester of my pregnancy, and less than two years later, an MS diagnosis. Professionally, I battled feelings of not being enough. Read more>>
Adeline-Julie Bee
Suffering taught me resilience in a way success never could. It showed me how to keep going when things fall apart, how to rebuild slowly, and how to find meaning even in uncertainty. While success can be comforting, suffering shapes character, it teaches patience, empathy, and the quiet strength that comes from knowing you can start again, no matter what. Read more>>
Sheida Jenkins
Suffering taught me resilience, empathy, and patience. Lessons that success alone cannot provide. It revealed the depth of my strength and helped me appreciate genuine growth beyond achievements. I learned that life is tough, but so am i, and I can overcome any challenge as long as I stay focused and consistent. Read more>>
Ivan Blue
Suffering taught me I was getting farther away from God. It allowed me to be vulnerable and be honest with myself. Figure out what’s my purpose and not just for myself but for God as well. With Success it makes it think you doing everything right so why question it? But if its not align with God then the foundation will soon crumble. Read more>>
Viveka von Rosen
You know what’s funny about success? It can actually hold us back. We get comfortable. Complacent. I wish humanity grew better through success – but we seem to need those AFGOs (Another F’ing Growth Opportunity) to truly evolve. I’m certainly no different. When I was ‘the LinkedIn Expert,’ – everything looked perfect on paper. But sometimes the biggest cage is a golden one. Read more>>
Theo Bray
Suffering and success are like twins. You can’t have any level of success without overcoming adversity; suffering. Suffering is the exam that evaluates where you are and teaches you what you’ve yet to learn. Suffering has taught me the importance of having a renewed, resolute mind to meet life’s challenges. Read more>>
William Jacobs
Suffering is success. If I did not realize this truth, I never would have completed production for Poet in a Modern World. It would have been practical of me to abandon the film at various instances with no success in sight. Read more>>
josei Harris
Suffering & sacrificing are critically defining parts of successful entrepreneurship. I liken suffering as an attribute; ‘The ability to delay gratification’. So much of building and developing is painful and unrewarding in the beginning of the entrepreneurial journey. No one can see your suffering, only your perceived awards. Suffering has taught me grace, dedication and discipline to achieve the results I desire. Read more>>
Jayy Maadniss
Suffering taught me that you’re the main person in your own way. 9/10 you put yourself into the positions you’re in. Not to say extenuating circumstances like jealous people, poverty & false accusations don’t happen because they absolutely do. However, suffering in my own ways taught me that it’s up to me to not be stuck in that victim mentality. Read more>>
Julie Fazooli
Honestly, I’ve learned a lot more about myself and the truth of my character when confronted with suffering than I ever could have with facing success. Read more>>
