Wrestling the Bear: When Difficulty Is Your Teacher

# Wrestling the Bear: When Difficulty Is Your Teacher Difficulty isn't punishment. It's curriculum.

The bear you're wrestling isn't trying to destroy you - it's trying to teach you something your comfort zone never could. I know this because I literally wrestled a bear.

On a vision quest in the Pecos Mountains, a 400-pound black bear came at me. Not metaphorically. Actually.

And what happened in that encounter - the terror, the surrender, the teaching that emerged from the most dangerous moment of my life - became the foundation of everything I now understand about how difficulty works.