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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)