What cannot hurt you can make you stronger!

Welcome to Episode #131 of NLP Around You.

🧠 Thoughtful Thought

“Persistence is your strongest ally on the road to success.” — Dr Mehernosh J Randeria

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💬 NLP Quote Corner

“Persistence isn’t a one-day miracle. It is a conscious choice translated into habit.” — Ankur Warikoo

⏳ One Minute NLP

Perceptual Positions

Ever been stuck in an argument where both sides felt unheard? NLP offers a simple tool: perceptual positions.

There are three perspectives you can step into:

First position – seeing the world through your own eyes, feeling your own emotions.
Second position – stepping into the other person’s shoes, experiencing how it might feel for them.
Third position – observing the situation as a neutral outsider, noticing patterns without judgement.

By shifting between these, you gain empathy, clarity, and new choices.

Next time tension rises, pause and ask: “What’s this like for them?” or “What would an observer see here?”

Conflicts soften. Solutions appear. Because when you change your perspective, you change the possibilities.

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🔮 Meta Magic

What cannot hurt you can make you stronger!

On his first day in office as President, when Abraham Lincoln entered to give his inaugural address, one man stood up. He was a rich Aristocrat. He said, “Mr. Lincoln, you should not forget that your father used to make shoes for my family.” And the whole Senate laughed; they thought they had made a fool of Lincoln.

But certain people are made of a totally different mettle. Lincoln looked at the man directly in the eye and said, “Sir, I know that my father used to make shoes for your family, and there will be many others here, because he made shoes the way nobody else can.

He was a creator. His shoes were not just shoes; he poured his whole soul into them. I want to ask you, have you any complaint? Because I know how to make shoes myself. If you have any complaint I can make you another pair of shoes. But as far as I know, nobody has ever complained about my father’s shoes. He was a genius, a great creator and I am proud of my father”.

The whole Senate was struck dumb. They could not understand what kind of man Abraham Lincoln was. He was proud because his father did his job so well that not even a single complaint had ever been heard.

Meta Magic Moment: No one can hurt you without your consent. It is not what happens to us that hurts us. It is our response that hurts us.

📖 Hook from the Book

“The arrival fallacy is the false assumption that reaching some achievement or goal will create durable feelings of satisfaction and contentment in our lives.” — Sahil Bloom, The 5 Types of Wealth: A Transformative Guide to Design Your Dream Life

🎬 Movie Motivation

“Kuch toh log kahenge… logon ka kaam hai kehna.” Translated to “People will always talk… that’s what they do.” This dialogue from the movie Amar Prem reminds us to not get carried away only by external validation.