RULE TO BREAK

If you don’t like it, tough

How many times do you hear people say that they’re unhappy with their job/university course/relationship/house/car or whatever, but they’re stuck with it? You may well have said it yourself. The problem with this attitude is that it makes you a victim. You have no control over your circumstances and you simply have to put up with whatever fate has thrown at you.

Look, if you take this attitude, it’s hardly surprising if you feel miserable, anxious and trapped. Who wouldn’t? If there’s really nothing you can do to extricate yourself from this thing that’s making you so unhappy, that’s immensely frustrating. But highly unlikely.

Are you so sure there isn’t an alternative? That’s very rarely the case, ...

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