In this week’s episode of Leadership Insider, I talk about something we all experience but rarely frame correctly — difficulty.

Setbacks.Betrayal.Unexpected collisions.Moments that knock the wind out of you.

Most people try to escape it.
Some become hardened by it.
A few learn to use it.

The difference is everything.

Crash test dummies take the hit so others can learn how to survive it. In many ways, that’s what responsibility looks like — taking the collision and extracting the lesson.

The question isn’t whether difficulty will come.

The question is: Will you use it?

Key Takeaways

• Every setback contains insight most people never retrieve.• If you don’t process pain, it makes you guarded.• If you do process it, it makes you wiser.• Difficulty can either shrink you or sharpen you.
• What you learn in private becomes someone else’s breakthrough later.
• Don’t just survive the hit — study it.

There is treasure inside what hurt you.
But you have to go back and collect it.

Use the difficulty.

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