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Life throws us curve balls all the time; it's the nature of the game. How we choose to interpret these events (and how we define and label them on our personal scale of severity) is going to have a huge impact not only on our experience of perceived problems - but our ability to effectively work through them.
How this works is that our perceptions tend to break down into two main categories: problems as obstacles, and problems as opportunities. Let's explore both in detail and extract as much personal empowerment as possible, shall we?