The former you must experience a crucifixion for the greatest you to experience a resurrection. Any great philosopher will tell you, the very journey of reclaiming human greatness. The very journey of you owning your genius. The very nature of you presenting your bigness to the world means who you once were, who you’ve always been, must die. So that the better you can have a rebirth. The very nature of a conscious, excellent, bold, heroic life means it’s a series of deaths and rebirths.
Every time you have a growth spurt in terms of your productivity, in terms of your performance, in terms of your human power, the old you dies. And when the old you dies, there’s discomfort.
Personally, through my entire life, as on this growth path, it’s death, rebirth, death, rebirth. And then I get to a certain level, I’ll go along, integrate all the learning and all of a sudden next level of growth, my old beliefs get let go. Some of my emotional ways of being let go, I let go of old habits, let go of old behaviors. That old part of me dies and it feels like a death sometimes for a week, sometimes for a month.
I feel more tired. I’ll feel confused. I’ll feel sort of groundless until the next level of me
integrates. And then it becomes familiar and safe and it’s the rebirth. And so as you will experience minor or macro dark nights of the soul, you will experience deaths for the benefit of a rebirth. People don’t talk about this, but it’s so incredibly powerful. And I guess what I’m suggesting you is the path to greatness is a messy sport. It is not for meek people, but it’s the best sport you could ever do, because this is how you become brave. This is how you become unconquerable. This is how you become a force of nature. This is how you become your truest and best self.