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Now, new students will often ask me why my class is so difficult, strict, or uniform, and the answer is simple.
But at some point, because it was too difficult or too painful, we decided to dismiss our natural ability to deal with failure and replace it with a lower acceptance level.
Why don't we try defining perfectionism as a willingness to do what is difficult to achieve what is right?
On the contrary, those in need are often bombarded with so much information that it's difficult to make sense of it all.
And it reflects how insanely difficult it could be to get your bearings when you first arrive in a new country.
It can be difficult to make the change.
They thought it would be difficult to make it as an artist, that it will be a challenge.
We decided to use the "big end of the log first" approach and selected 17 of the most challenging, difficult, chronically homeless people we could find, because we knew we would learn the most from them.
We know you've got a difficult job in your position of power.
The board members, like Martha Lane Fox, who has hundreds of thousands of followers on Twitter, and highly influential in business, tweeted how impressed she was, and within 10 months, we'd had meetings with Marks and Spencer to say, "We know this is difficult to be a living wage employer, but if you can be one, the rest of the sector will look at it, and it's not right that some of your amazing workers are working full time and still can't pay their bills.
And those difficult home experiences created real barbed-wire barriers to learning, and we had to figure out a way over it.
In the case of the Greenland Norse, cultural factors that made it difficult for them to solve their problems were: their commitments to a Christian society investing heavily in cathedrals; their being a competitive-ranked chiefly society; and their scorn for the Inuit, from whom they refused to learn.
For example, the Greenland Norse, in this difficult environment, were held together for four-and-a-half centuries by their shared commitment to religion, and by their strong social cohesion.
So it's particularly difficult to change course when the things that get you in trouble are the things that are also the source of your strength.
You know that what you need to do is possible to do, even though difficult, and sense of time disappears, you forget yourself, you feel part of something larger.
As a pyramid scheme grows, it becomes increasingly difficult for new recruits to make money.
Pyramid schemes are illegal in most countries, but they can be difficult to detect.
As with any large investment, it can be emotionally difficult to abandon a line of research when it isn't working out.
It might be difficult to fathom how every Pomeranian, Chihuahua, and Poodle are descended from fierce wolves.
The idea is that it's become so difficult to have a private conversation anywhere that you go to the spa, you have a massage, you have a facial, maybe a rub, and then you have this beautiful pool with this perfect temperature, and you can have this isolation tank phone conversation with whomever you've been wanting to talk with for a long time.
It's a difficult theory to discount, I think you'll agree.
And slowly, over time, people circle back again and again to difficult topics, each time with a little more empathy, a little more nuance, a little more curiosity.
And so we do our work in direct challenge to the political climate in our country right now, and we do it knowing that it is difficult, challenging work to hold and support people in opposing backgrounds in conversation.
After we closed that first Trump/Clinton project, about two-thirds of the women went on to form their own Facebook group and they chose a moderator from each state and they continue to talk about difficult and challenging issues.
When I first arrived in beautiful Zimbabwe, it was difficult to understand that 35 percent of the population is HIV positive.
And I don't think the idea is too terribly difficult.
The reason it's difficult is an information gap.
The public tends to underestimate how difficult scientific things are.
That framework of rules would have turned an embarrassing, difficult situation into a fun game.
And that is, instinctively we've gone out and climbed over difficult places, went to more hostile places, and found out later, maybe to our surprise, that that's the reason we survived.
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