All struggles are opportunities to grow.

Nobody is required to find the lesson while still inside the thing. That accounting can wait years, and often does.

What tends to happen is quieter and retroactive. A friend describes a problem and you find you already know the shape of it, because you spent a bad autumn in the same room. You did not study it. You survived in it, and it went in anyway.

Growth is rarely a decision made under pressure. More often it is something you discover you did.