“If you want to stress-test something, you have to break it”
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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To really understand how strong something is, you need to push it until it breaks. Imagine you're testing a bridge. By putting more and more weight on it until it falls apart, you find out how much it can handle. This way of testing lets you see its weaknesses and make it better next time. In everyday life, think about learning to ride a bike. If you're scared of falling and never let go of the training wheels, you won't really know how skilled you are. But when you take those wheels off and maybe fall a few times, you learn your limits and get better. Similarly, tackling hard problems or challenges can show us what we're capable of and what we need to work on, helping us improve and grow stronger in the process.
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