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“I'm proud of how I handled a situation that used to derail me.”
This is what the practice produces. You didn't eliminate the difficulty, you changed how you moved through it. That is self-direction working exactly as it should.
Your Practice
Write down what specifically you did differently this time. Be concrete. This is your evidence that you've grown, keep it somewhere you can return to when doubt creeps back in.
The Architects
“Men are disturbed not by the things which happen, but by the opinions about the things.”
Epictetus, Enchiridion, ch. V (George Long translation)