{"id":6243,"date":"2018-07-26T22:42:18","date_gmt":"2018-07-27T02:42:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=6243"},"modified":"2018-07-26T22:43:19","modified_gmt":"2018-07-27T02:43:19","slug":"good-from-bad-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=6243","title":{"rendered":"Good from Bad Things"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/McGonigal-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/McGonigal-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"266\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6727\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/McGonigal-2.jpg 800w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/McGonigal-2-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/McGonigal-2-768x510.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is a critical distinction, and one of the most important things to understand about how adversity can make you stronger.  The science of post-traumatic growth doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t say that there is anything inherently good about suffering.  Nor does it say that every traumatic event leads to growth.  When any good comes from suffering, the source of that growth resides in <em>you<\/em> &#8212; your strengths, your values, and how you choose to respond to adversity.  It does not belong to the trauma.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Kelly McGonigal, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Nonfiction\/upside_of_stress.html\">The Upside of Stress<\/a><\/em>, p. 201<\/p>\n<p>Photo: Staffa Island, Scotland, July 13, 2003<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a critical distinction, and one of the most important things to understand about how adversity can make you stronger. The science of post-traumatic growth doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t say that there is anything inherently good about suffering. Nor does it say that every traumatic event leads to growth. When any good comes from suffering, the source [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-growth","category-trials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}