With all the focus on success it’s easy to overlook the valuable lessons we can learn from the more difficult parts of our journey. Below, you’ll find some very interesting insights from some of the most fascinating members of the community.
Ralph Borgess
Suffering taught me things success never could. Growing up, it was just me and my mom, and we didn’t have much. Money was tight, life was heavy, and I was surrounded by more death than a kid should ever have to see. I lost people I loved early, and that kind of pain doesn’t just fade — it rewires how you look at the world. Read more>>
Vonnya Pettigrew
Suffering taught me that I could survive. Read more>>
Will Kimmins
My grandfather was the one who taught me most about what it means to be a man. A lot of his wisdom could be generalized into what it means to be an adult, but for a boy trying to figure out who he was going to be when he grew up, having someone who had done the thing correctly to learn from was priceless. Read more>>
Christian Kearson
One of the biggest lessons we’ve learned is to charge our worth and not be afraid to walk away from the first offer. We’ve had to remind ourselves to believe in our vision more than we believe in anyone else’s opinion of it. When you hold onto that, the right opportunities and partnerships start aligning with you instead of you shrinking to fit into them. Read more>>
Fury Godwin
That no one really cares about my problems, no one is coming to save me, and when I become successful, everything I have will be coveted by people who pretend to love me. That I can survive with little to nothing, and not die. That I can ONLY rely on myself, and the only person I have to prove anything to IS myself. Read more>>
tarsha johns
Suffering taught me lessons that success never could. Losing my grandmothers was the hardest seasons of my life. Their absence left a deep pain, but it also taught me patience, humility, and faith in ways I never expected. Through those losses, I learned resilience. I learned to lean on God when nothing else made sense. Read more>>
Mackenzie Norris
Suffering teaches many things that success could never help you embody. I learned that suffering was needed in order to obtain fulfilling success. Imagine if everyone was instantly successful, there would be no true determination or reason to be inspired. we live in a society where people flock to what’s popular and I battled with this at first. Read more>>
Jasmine Simmons
This is a very deep question but a good one and an important one to answer. Suffering taught me that healing is always an ongoing process. You have to be prepared to face the suffering every single part of that emotion/pain in order to really be able to walk into your healing process. Read more>>
Zuri Jefferson
It taught me discipline. How pushing through hard times and not succumbing to challenges builds character and resilience to never give up. Read more>>
Bintou Kah
It taught me to be resilience. Suffering teaches you how to get back up when life knocks you down. It also teaches that it’s okay to have a loss, it’s the way you handle that loss to determine how life will go. Success may reward your efforts, but suffering builds the grit that keeps you moving when there’s no applause. Read more>>
Shirley McClellan
Success could never teach me faith, resilience, and flexibility the way that suffering has. Read more>>
Monyae Smalls
Suffering taught me that it’s about the moments that we are alone and endure that matter the most. During success, we generally get puffed up and forget that there were steps that got us to the place we are in. Read more>>
