CCIIIB - Rights to Write - Task 10 - 1st Reply

Dear Nicole,

Well said! I absolutely agree with your point on "not just playing it safe" and trying to "push the limits". It can be very difficult sometimes, the challenges we have to face, and like you said, ignoring the "voice" that keeps telling you to quit is a sure way to achieve success.

I think that most of the difficulties are caused by our own weaknesses in our minds. Of course there are some difficulties that are caused by other uncontrollable forces, and others by a series of unpredictable events or coincidences, but I believe that most of the problems that we have to face, which are caused by outside causes are easier to handle than the problems that occur because of our own weakness. It is because we have these weaknesses that we encounter these problems that we think are difficulties.

Most of the challenges we have that are caused by reasons other than our own mental weaknesses are easier to face. One reason is that we are not to be blamed for the consequences that may occur when facing these kinds of obstacles, because we were not responsible for the occurrence of the incident, and thus we can speak with ease, that we will try to resolve the problem with confidence.

However, if the problems were caused by our own mental weaknesses, then the problems would be a whole lot more difficult to deal with, hence we call them difficulties. This is because we lack the ability, or that we posses certain defects that allowed the problem to be able to arise, or take shape. And since we don't have what it takes to resolve the problem, we often find ourselves overwhelmed by the difficulties, and can often choose to run away from them.

So the reason why over coming difficulties are difficult, is that we would have to change who we are initially, or to acquire the required skills or talents or characteristics needed to solve the problem, and this is way much easier said than done. Since we don't have the necessary skills or characteristics to prevent the problem from arising in the first place, so when the problem occurs, it would be difficult for us to solve it without the required skills, and it would be even more difficult to learn or acquire what we don't originally possess, in the face of the difficulties.

That is why people admire those who are successful, who can overcome their difficulties; they can achieve what they themselves think is difficult. While most of us see our own difficulties as impossible missions, those who are successful often see their difficulties as improbable missions. Difficult, yes, but not impossible. And then they will try to find a way to defeat their difficulties and whatever new problems that might occur during the process. I think this is because those people can differentiate the difference between the improbable and the impossible.

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