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King Solomon has an incredible piece of
wisdom about dealing with failure about
coming back from the lowest moment in
our lives to understand it you actually
have to be able to unpack the Hebrew of
the original verse it's in Calis what
they call Ecclesiastes King Solomon
says I saw meaning I
perceived that there's an advantage of
light over dark seemingly this does not
come across as profound wisdom everyone
knows there's an advantage of light over
dark you're walking around in a dark
room and bumping into things you want to
turn on the light a deeper explanation
is the advantage of light being better
than dark means relatively speaking you
don't appreciate the light until you've
had the dark but it's still not the
ultimate explanation because it's only a
subjective Advantage it's not actually
brighter it just feels brighter for
having been in the dark then there's a
even deeper level which is like
the advantage of
light not than the light that word mean
is a preposition you can translate it as
than but you can also translate it as
from so it's actually light from
Darkness the advantage the special
quality of light that's coming from
Darkness there's regular light which is
made from light and then there's special
light which is made from dark the
advantage of light that's taken out from
made of dark now what does that mean how
can you make light out of dark they're
antithetical here's the answer that when
you experience your lowest moment of
moral failing if you simply resolved to
never do that again it would have been
better if you had never experienced that
moment of moral failing however if
because of that moment of moral failing
it awakens in you a new level of
sensitivity a new level of vigilance of
being super super careful cuz I know
what it's like and I don't ever want to
go back to that I'm going to be so much
more careful well really what happened
is because of your past experience you
end up becoming so much more sensitive
to goodness than you would have been if
you had never had that negative
experience so at the end was that a
negative experience or does it end up as
a net gain you don't purposely fail in
order to learn from your mistakes but
after the fact after it happens if
having gone through your lowest moment
in life becomes a springboard to be so
much more careful in the future and you
never would have achieved that level of
carefulness and sensitivity if you
hadn't been burnt in the past well then
what happened that negative moment
becomes actually the greatest moment you
hear this a lot from addicts and
Recovery who talk about the greatest
thing that ever happened to them is
hitting bottom hitting bottom is the
worst thing that ever happened to you
and the best so that's the advantage of
light from dark when the dark moment
becomes the beginning of a whole new
category of light
