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Mirror 43 · The Body

Stress

Stress is not the enemy. It is the signal that something matters. The problem is not the load — it is that you have forgotten how to sway with it.

The Golden Gate Bridge stands two miles across the entrance to San Francisco Bay, suspended from two cables that carry a load of over a million tons. It was designed by an engineer named Joseph Strauss, but the man who made it survivable was a professor named Charles Derleth, who insisted that the b...

Reflection question

What would change in your life if you truly believed this?

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