Almost Everything Is Like A Machine.

Since The Only Way You Are Going To Find Solutions To Painful Problems Is By Thinking Deeply About Them - I.e., Reflecting - If You Can Develop A Knee-jerk Reaction To Pain That Is To Reflect Rather Than To Fight Or Flee, It Will Lead To Your Rapid Learning/evolving.

Nature Gave Us Pain As A Messaging Device To Tell Us That We Are Approaching, Or That We Have Exceeded, Our Limits In Some Way.

Meditation Helps You Stay In A Calm, Clear-headed State So That When Challenges Come At You, You Can Deal With Them Like A Ninja - In A Calm Thoughtful Way. When You're Centered, Your Emotions Are Not Hijacking You.

Unlike In School, In Life You Don't Have To Come Up With All The Right Answers. You Can Ask The People Around You For Help - Or Even Ask Them To Do The Things You Don't Do Well. In Other Words, There Is Almost No Reason Not To Succeed If You Take The Attitude Of 1) Total Flexibility - Good Answers Can Come From Anyone Or Anywhere (and In Fact, As I Have Mentioned, There Are Far More Good Answers 'out There' Than There Are In You) And 2) Total Accountability: Regardless Of Where The Good Answers Come From, It's Your Job To Find Them.

The Best Advice I Can Give You Is To Ask Yourself What Do You Want, Then Ask 'what Is True' - And Then Ask Yourself 'what Should Be Done About It.' I Believe That If You Do This You Will Move Much Faster Towards What You Want To Get Out Of Life Than If You Don't!