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Who are the greatest teachers in your life?

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Who are the greatest teachers in your life? They can sometimes be unlikely ones who set bad examples or bring you down.

—Calm App Reflection

Image from Unsplash by Taylor Flowe

Who are the greatest teachers in your life? Chances are, they’re not all the ones who cheer you on.

Some wore disapproval like armor.

Others knocked you down just to see if you would rise.

They taught resilience the hard way—through rejection, betrayal, or loss.

Painful? Yes.

But those moments shaped your wisdom more deeply than an easy success ever could.

The truth is that life’s best classroom often has poor lighting and uncomfortable chairs.

When we step back, we see that even the people who challenge or hurt us were powerful mentors, showing us what we’d never want to become—and what we’re finally strong enough to be.

EXERCISE:

Who are or have been your most difficult and challenging teachers?

How do or did their lessons wrapped in discomfort help you become the person you are today?

Role models and mentors are flesh and blood representations of what is possible for you

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Role models and mentors are flesh and blood representations of what is possible for you. If they did what they did, you can too.

—Calm App Reflection

Image from Unsplash by Eunice De Guzman

In the world of achievement there are plenty of examples of people who have been there and done that. We often view and imbue these people with super-human powers and abilities, and see ourselves as frail and flawed.

When we see people this way, we are almost always missing the full picture.

These individuals stumble and fall like the rest of us. They bleed, they have wounds and scars that often go hidden. What many of them do better and more often is pick themselves up, dust themselves off, and go at it again and again.

EXERCISE:

Interview some of the role models and mentors you’ve had over the years. Pay particular attention to how they managed various types of adversity to become the people you’ve come to respect and admire.