WHAT MAKES YOU THE TRUE YOU?

A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.’

Back in the time of this quote, gemstones were polished by grinding. Cutting and cleaving, as we know them today, had yet to be invented.
If you wanted something shiny, you ground it to the basic shape, then smoothed it with fine grit, and then polished it. Each stage was done by way of friction and the grinding off of the parts, which were unwanted.
The result of a great deal of work was a perfected gemstone, polished and shiny.

Similarly, humans are perfected through the learning process, which include pop quizzes and the occasional essay test, or trial.
In this manner, we polish ourselves. We go through trials, and the ideas that don’t work are eliminated and better ones are created or found. With each learning experience, we become better, and we approach perfection.
It is one thing to face a trial, a test, a difficulty or a challenge. That happens all the time. What matters is that we learn from these events and that we either avoid them next time, or at least move past them with much less difficulty than last time.

properly analyze

That means we have to learn. To learn, we have to have been paying attention. If we’re just drifting along through life, we’re probably not paying much attention, right?
But we also need to properly analyse what happened and why, if we are to avoid it in the future. These skills are learned by repetition, which is why babies and toddlers frequently do things over and over before learning, and then knowing better.
Eventually, we begin to recognise patterns, and learning gets easier. And the more you learn, the easier it is to spot the patterns.

The same goes for determining why things happen, so that we might better avoid the problem next time.
If you keep having the same problem, it might be worth taking a little time to examine what you think the nature of the problem is, and see if that is something you need to change.
This quote is as much about attitude as it is about fortitude. The quote talks about how we, as humans, are perfected. Trials, tribulations, obstacles, and difficulties of all shapes and sizes are all around us.

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As we clear our path, we learn how to avoid or deal with each different situation. Over time, most of us get pretty good at recognising and either avoiding, or minimising, the effort needed to get past them. In this manner, we have been perfected.
Whether it’s a skill set we are perfecting, our ability to interact socially, or working on our relationships, we are attempting to become better at every turn. Yes, sometimes we make mistakes, but that provides another learning opportunity as well.
In short, that was the long way of saying you have been doing this your entire life, and will likely be doing it until your very last breath. It is part of how humans operate, and how life seems to work.
The only question is how well you do it, and how much attention you pay to these events.

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