The Best Possible You. Michael Doiley

was a positive side to these occurrences, what were they? List them in your own shorthand style to be elaborated and analysed later. It could look something like the following example:

      1) The bullying by John Smith made me take up Karate. Now I feel confident that I can protect my family. OR-

      2) My mother’s cooking was so bad that as a teenager I had to prepare my own food. Now I’m a top-class cook.

      So we’ll call these examples of positive arriving from negative, Chinese Catastrophe’s and I sincerely hope I’m not offending anyone Chinese by using this term.

      South African militant Steven Biko was tortured and eventually killed for his beliefs. Nelson Mandela shared the same principles and was imprisoned for over twenty-five years for his convictions. At the time of his admission on to Robin Island his wife and colleagues were undoubtedly devastated at losing yet another leader, this time to a prison sentence. But that prison sentence may have saved his life. For when he emerged more than a quarter of a century later, he found many of his former ANC comrades had been killed. He though, emerged at the time when his country was ready for him. He soon became South Africa’s president and went on to radically change the continent as well as the mind-set of its inhabitants.

       Your Personal Chinese Catastrophe’s

       (Good that came out of bad)

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