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The Resilience and Determination You have in Life

“What’s comin’ will come and we’ll meet it when it does.” J. K. Rowling

Sean P. Durham
6 min readFeb 11, 2020

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Each day, we are bombarded with information — it’s worse than it has ever been in human history.

Advertisements, news feeds that offer us a scrolling update of all the terrible things happening in the World.

The idea of this bombardment is to take you away from your own thinking and get you thinking about somebody else's plan. The result is often feelings of being overwhelmed, exhausted and having bitten off too much to chew.

If we kid ourselves that all these adverts and information are important, we will put off our personal goals, until we feel well, or better, or have more time.

Resilience is a mental tool we have that helps us to bounce back from the setbacks and failures in life. Determination keeps us on track.

One of my favourite stories of resilience is J.K. Rowling’s story.

J.K. Rowling worked in a small flat in Edinburgh, often going to a local café with her small daughter to work on her book — “Harry Potter”.

J.K. Rowling could never have known that she would become wildly successful with her book. But, she did want to write it and finish it. That seemed…

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Sean P. Durham
Sean P. Durham

Written by Sean P. Durham

Berlin Notes — Creative Writing about art, Life & cats. https://seandurham.eu

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