ALBERT EINSTEIN
One of the finest beliefs I developed years ago that helped me to enjoy all of my life experience was
the idea that there are no bad experiences, that no matter what I go through in life—whether it's a
challenging experience or a pleasurable one—every experience provides me something of value if I
look for it. If I pull just one idea or one distinction from an experience, then it expands me.
Back when I was still in high school and scraping together money any way I could in order to attend
personal development seminars, my friends were amazed that I'd go back to some of the same
seminars again and again. Often they'd ask me, "Why would you go back to the same program?"
Inevitably I'd tell them that I understood the power of repetition, and each time I heard something
new because I was different. Plus I knew that hearing something again and again would eventually
condition me to use it, that repetition truly is the mother of skill. Every time I reviewed a program, I
made additional distinctions or heard ideas that impacted me differently and enabled me to create new
references, and thus new interpretations, new actions, and new results in my life.
One of the finest beliefs I developed years ago that helped me to enjoy all of my life experience was
the idea that there are no bad experiences, that no matter what I go through in life—whether it's a
challenging experience or a pleasurable one—every experience provides me something of value if I
look for it. If I pull just one idea or one distinction from an experience, then it expands me.
Back when I was still in high school and scraping together money any way I could in order to attend
personal development seminars, my friends were amazed that I'd go back to some of the same
seminars again and again. Often they'd ask me, "Why would you go back to the same program?"
Inevitably I'd tell them that I understood the power of repetition, and each time I heard something
new because I was different. Plus I knew that hearing something again and again would eventually
condition me to use it, that repetition truly is the mother of skill. Every time I reviewed a program, I
made additional distinctions or heard ideas that impacted me differently and enabled me to create new
references, and thus new interpretations, new actions, and new results in my life.
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