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Our greatest challenge to achieving happiness is not the obstacles we encounter in our life. The true barrier to happiness lies inside of us—and it’s the one thing we can’t ever escape: our own mind.
If it’s different from that, we resist, even if it’s better.
What comes next, we decide. And we have one thing at our disposal: time.
What he didn’t know is that Cara, Alister, and Will had all told very big lies. Lies that they knew about. Lies that would change everything.
A mind under stress naturally resists rest. It is a machine that is always on. Yet, often times, the only way to overcome the stress-inducing obstacle is to recharge and achieve greater performance. Therefore, a new perspective must be adopted: that rest is productive, that in times of great stress, rest is often the activity of greatest value.

