Alex Hormozi posted this and I want to refer to it later, hence I’m copying it below.

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Imagine you’re talking to God about the person you want to become…

– You say “I want to be courageous.”
– God replies “Then I will give you monsters to terrify you. That way you can conquer them.”

– You say “I want to be patient.”
– God replies “Then I will make you work harder and longer. That way you can learn to wait.”

– You say “I want to be wise.”
– God replies “Then I will give you failures that will crush your spirit. That way you can learn the value of judgment.”

– You then say… “That sounds like a hard life. Can you give me a good life?”
– God replies “Just like we measure the quality of a blacksmith by the strength of his steel, I measure you by what you are at the end, not the fire and the hammer it took to make you. A good life isn’t an easy life. A good life makes you into a good person. And that, my child, is a hard life.”