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6 Books to Help You Get Through Hard Times and Inspire You to Come Out Stronger
Develop mental toughness
Books accelerate your knowledge and help you become wise quickly because you can mentally download the experiences of other people, often smart, successful, and strong people.
You can experience years or decades of their life in the span of a few hours. Books give you the opportunity to digest these insights in a different way.
The author doesn’t know you personally, so you don’t take their insights personally. You’re allowed to sit and think about how the lessons apply to your laugh.
These books can help you during hard times, not just to endure them, but to get stronger because of them.
Man’s Search For Meaning by Viktor Frankl
“In some ways suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaning of a sacrifice.”
I make this little joke to myself whenever I don’t feel like writing — “Viktor Frankl survived a concentration camp and wrote a book after. You can get your writing done.”
