It’s hard to participate in a sensory-heightening experience (e.g. public presentation, competition, or something fear confrontational) and NOT grow from it.
In fact, the only way to engage in an experience like this and not grow is if you deliberately choose not to learn anything from the experience.
And the only way to do that is by closing your mind… burying your head in the sand (read: screens)… deciding not to care… blaming, blaming, blaming… or otherwise trashing the raw potential that is the byproduct of all sensory-heightening experiences.
…Because that’s exactly what you get out when you put yourself in those types of situations: raw potential.
And like any raw resource… it needs time, energy, and effort before it can be refined and utilized (for growth).
The more you invest in sensory-heightening experiences—the more of that raw potential resource you get. But, always remember—that’s just one part of the equation.
…Because the more you invest in the refinement of that raw potential resource (by replaying, reflecting, and extracting what’s most useful)… the more you’ll be able to actually do something with it.
You can have an entire mountain of marble…
It won’t be at all useful until it’s extracted, cut, and engineered into countertop, furniture, or building…
P.s. ICYMI you can read the best of what I posted to MoveMe Quotes last week here.