How Struggle Makes Us Stronger

Jonah Lehrer explains:

For me, the lesson of stuttering is that obstacles can also be
advantages, that who we become is deeply influenced by what we cannot
do. (Or, to quote the sage words of Kanye,
"Everything I'm not/made me everything I am.") The secret is to
struggle through, because the very act of raging against a disadvantage
generates its own set of skills.

That, at least, is the message of this new paper on Tourette's
Syndrome and cognitive control.

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