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Take-Aways
• Successful people demonstrate “comfort with discomfort.” • Accepting discomfort is easier if you find a valuable meaning behind it. • Expressing gratitude can ease stress and yield additional reasons to be grateful. • Reinvention may be painful and could expose you to criticism, but it can play a pivotal role in successful change. • To be more comfortable with discomfort, simply believe you are in control. • The question “What’s next?” usually follows change. • Innovation may emerge from embracing the unknown. • Sustainable change requires accepting discomfort for an extended time.

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In this thoughtful collection of case studies, Amanda Lang, author of The Power of Why, presents personal development concepts that she illustrates with concrete business examples. She assures readers that change can be positive, but determining how to change is difficult. Lang demonstrates her theory-in-action with fascinating stories of athletes, military leaders, and long-term and novice executives. Each mini-bio is engaging and provides glimpses into the lives of fascinating people who accepted discomfort in order to thrive. The stories deliver Lang’s motivational self-help messages.
Summary
Successful people demonstrate “comfort with discomfort.”
For many people and in many circumstances, change is uncomfortable. Whether you’re starting a diet, modifying a departmental policy, getting a divorce or launching a new business, the process you undergo can be unpleasant. How you tolerate and then embrace change may play a pivotal role in your success. Some creative and successful people don’t merely endure change; they seek it out over and over, demonstrating a comfort with discomfort. These innovators transform discomfort from a threat to an “encouraging sign.” The results: resiliency, success and happiness.
Accepting discomfort is easier if you find a valuable meaning behind it.
The ability to adapt to new processes, circumstances or ways of thinking is fundamental to your success.
Accept change by finding a valuable meaning behind it. Change your mind-set or attitude, and think through your actions. You can reframe the sense of discomfort, shut out negative thoughts, invent a sense of perceived control, reinvent yourself or revamp your thinking. To change something large like a business, change your personal relationship with discomfort.
Expressing gratitude can ease stress and yield additional reasons to be grateful.
That’s what Jim Moss, a former professional lacrosse and hockey player, did when Guillain-Barré syndrome nearly incapacitated him. The disease breaks down the connection between the central nervous system – the spinal cord and brain – and the rest of the body. Moss relied on a positive mind-set and expressions of gratitude to get him through. Soon after his hospital discharge, he walked back into a hospital room for the birth of his daughter.
“Think constructively about the past and optimistically about the future.”
The gratitude that Moss practiced is generally a reaction to positive interactions with someone else. He focused on and talked about the things for which he was grateful. He lived out a lesson research verifies: Expressing gratitude eases stress and yields additional reasons to be grateful. Moss’s focus on positivity paid dividends in his physical recuperation and in the help others provided. His gratitude brought out the best of those who were supporting him. His therapists came in off the clock to donate time and assistance, giving “‘compound interest on positivity.’”