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"What doesn't kill you makes you stronger." After being hit by a truck, surviving cancer, returning from a long war, or losing a child, experience (data) teach
by randcraw 4y ago
"What doesn't kill you makes you stronger." After being hit by a truck, surviving cancer, returning from a long war, or losing a child, experience (data) teaches you otherwise.
- caeril 4y agoHormesis is definitely "a thing". Getting hit by a truck may injure you to the point of being permanently weakened, but a series of lesser traumas will generally improve your bone and connective tissue strength. The phrase is technically incorrect, but the spirit of it absolutely is.
- capableweb 4y agoI'm not sure you could "prove" either way on this with any amount of data. My personal anecdote is that hard times made easier times more fulfilling, and early hardship in my life has made later hardship much easier to deal with, in comparison to my peers. But there is also a limit to that of course. Not sure how I'd handle losing a child for example, or if I'd ever be able to overcome something like that.