Robin Sharma

You get the Ferrari, you drive it around for a while, it becomes your new normal, and then it becomes a drug of choice, and you want the next Ferrari.

So there's nothing wrong with having your material ambitions, not at all, fifth form of wealth.

But if we think, myself included, if we think getting those things will make us feel better, I think we're just mesmerizing ourself and diluting ourself because the Zen proverb says it really well, wherever you go, there you are.

Let's say you've had a bad day.

Let's say you've had a bad year.

Let's say you've had a bad decade.

What does the ego say?

Get me out of this.

Can't stand this.

Why me?

Why did they do that to me?

Makes you feel miserable.

But a bad day for the ego is a great day for the soul because it is our troubles and our tragedies and our difficulties that introduce us to wisdom.

When do we read the wisdom literature?

Khalil Gibran's The Prophet or the wisdom books.

I don't know about you, Rangan, but...

When I've been in the seasons of difficulty and in the winters of suffering, that's when I go to wisdom most.

So we learn wisdom in difficulty.

We learn forgiveness in difficulty.

We write hundreds of pages in our journals, pouring out our pain and confusion in difficulty.