Why Struggle is Life’s one of the greatest blessing ?

Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.

                                                                                                      -Arnold Schwarzenegger

A good life is a life of struggle. This is because struggle makes you stronger, and strength is the source of freedom. The struggle of life is one of our greatest blessings. It makes us patient, sensitive, and Godlike. It teaches us that although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.

It’s obvious how struggling against heavy weights in the gym or struggling against a steep mountain while hiking makes you stronger. Your muscles respond to such challenges by growing. What’s less obvious is how this same principle applies to your mind.

The brain is like a bunch of muscles, and the mental gym is everywhere. Your charge is to recognize this truth and choose to put in your reps. If you become aware of the many opportunities you have for mental training, then you can capitalize on them.

Any time your willpower is called upon, it is an opportunity to build psychological strength.

Every painful experience offers you a chance to develop your emotional fortitude.

Whenever your mind is challenged, it is an occasion to become smarter.

Here are three reasons why your unwelcome visitor called struggle is actually a good thing.

1. Struggle is for greater good … eventually.

Research shows that people who struggle with a problem on their own before receiving assistance actually perform better than people who haven’t had to struggle -- on the second time they encounter a problem.

So if initial performance is all you care about, struggle isn’t necessarily going to help you. But if you care about long-term performance, as you should, then your struggle will likely pay off.

Researchers called this “productive failure.” They say fumbling with a problem early on fostered “hidden efficacy” because it led to deeper understanding of the problem after struggling with it.

The takeaway? Focusing exclusively on initial performance is myopic. Struggling trumps ease in the long run.

2. Struggle is a hard task master, but necessary for betterment.

People learn more when they struggle. You probably hate this as much as I do, but it's true.

As a career change coach, I most often see people struggling at frustration level when they’re in a new position of leadership, have made a career pivot to a new industry, or are making the shift from traditional corporate work to entrepreneurship. There’s a huge learning curve, and hence often huge initial frustration, in all of those scenarios.

Stumbling under the weight of your new duties and feeling frustrated that your herculean efforts are only getting you feeble results? Give it time. You’re in a deep learning phase.

3. Struggle gives you courage to think out of the box and motivate you to try new things

The frustration we feel when we struggle with something makes us more open-minded about alternative solutions. Why? Struggle is a form of feedback that says what you’re doing now isn’t working.

Spinning your wheels with a problem and realizing that your attempts to solve it aren’t working forces you to try things you probably wouldn’t try if things were sailing along smoothly. Maybe even things you’ve thought of trying before but didn’t want to.

Struggle forces you to reinvent your approach to the problem in a new way because you have to. Nothing else you’ve tried has worked yet.

Comfort zones and tried and true solutions are fine when your work is a piece of cake, but the discomfort of struggle eventually forces you to think and do differently.

Abhinav Sharma ,Leadership- CXO's level Hiring Consultant | Helping Organizations in Leadership Hiring and Talent Acquisition | Performance Coach & Motivational Speaker | Recruitment Expert | Career Coach | Story Teller