Eight Crucial Lessons People Learn The Hard Way

You pay dearly if you don’t learn these lessons on time.

Victor Mong
8 min readJul 13, 2023
Photo by Brooke Cagle on Unsplash

Life teaches us many lessons and sometimes, we learn them the hard way.

There are opportunities to learn these lessons early on, but due to ignorance or negligence, they often only sink in after we’ve gone through specific experiences.

Here are such eight lessons:

Life is a problem space, your quality of life depends on how many problems you can solve.

We’re all born into a problem space. Life is a maze of problems to solve. It’s full of suffering.

At a young age, others solve your problems. Your parent or caregiver works hard to make life easy for you. But as you get older, you’re meant to take responsibility for your life.

Unfortunately, most people grow up with an entitlement mindset. They think that life is a bed of roses and somehow, someone will keep solving their problems, even as adults.

These are the same people who blame others, make excuses when things don’t go their way, or quit too soon.

The most successful people are those who focus on figuring out a way out of their own problems within their…

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Victor Mong

I write about human potential, building a life you want & mastering your mind || info.victormong@gmail.com