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One harmful habit that can keep anybody from fulfilling their potential<\/a> is self-coddling. This is when a person encounters difficulty, but instead of pushing through it, runs to a harmful vice in an attempt to self-soothe.\u00a0<\/p>\n

This habit runs rampant in a generation inflicted with participation trophies and grade inflation, which many academics and psychologists now believe do more harm than good.\u00a0<\/p>\n

A story from World War II can help.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Marines of H\/2\/1 had been fighting an intense battle on Guadalcanal<\/a> for weeks. C-rations had run out, and the troops were only authorized to eat twice a day \u2013 and then only pieces of coconut they\u2019d scrounged mixed with wormy rice confiscated from the enemy.\u00a0<\/p>\n

BATAAN SURVIVOR, 101, REMEMBERS ENDURING POW CAMPS BECAUSE \u2018GOD SUSTAINED ME\u2019<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Pfc. Sid Phillips (featured in HBO\u2019s miniseries “The Pacific”) grew increasingly concerned for his hometown friend, W.O. Brown, who was racked with severe dysentery. Everything Brown tried to eat ran straight through him.\u00a0<\/p>\n

There was no medicine. No cots to lie on. The sick were simply stretched out on the ground. Brown grew so emaciated he became too weak even to sit up. Flies covered him as he lay in his own diarrhea.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Brown\u2019s friend Phillips ultimately lived to age 91. Before he passed in 2015, I interviewed him for my bestselling book “Voices of the Pacific:\u00a0<\/i>Untold Stories from the Marine Heroes of World War II,” written with historian Adam Makos. I asked Phillips about his experiences on Guadalcanal.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“It was bad,” Phillips told me. “I didn\u2019t think W.O. was going to survive.”<\/p>\n

Each day during lulls in the fighting<\/a>, Phillips carried his friend to the ocean and helped him get clean.\u00a0<\/p>\n

I asked Phillips if he remembered any specific conversations he had with Brown during these times. Here, I was expecting a poignant story. I pictured this young battle-hardened Marine carrying his nearly-dead buddy to the water. “Keep holding on,” Phillips would whisper. “Have courage. Think of mom and apple pie.” Something like that.<\/p>\n

JAPAN WILL \u2018NEVER REPEAT THE TRAGEDY OF WAR,\u2019 PM VOWS ON 78TH ANNIVERSARY OF UNCONDITIONAL WWII SURRENDER<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

But Phillips just chuckled. “Oh yeah, I remember all right. I told W.O. to stop being such a faker and take a salt tablet.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

The response threw me. I asked Phillips, who eventually became a highly respected medical doctor in Alabama, what his strategy was.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“Well, it didn\u2019t help a man to overly commiserate with him,” Phillips said. “That just depressed him. But if you kidded him, it made him smile. The ribbing was all good-natured. He\u2019d fire back some wisecrack at you, and soon he\u2019d get to fighting again.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

Can Phillips\u2019 strategy apply to today\u2019s generations?<\/p>\n

Phillips respected W.O. Brown as a man with the capacity to get up, go on and push through difficulty. Today\u2019s generations need to be taught to believe the same about themselves. We are far stronger than we think we are<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Anytime someone is in a downed place \u2013 maybe annoyed, angry, tired, hurt, lonely, stressed or frustrated \u2013 they are tempted to be overly self-sympathetic. That brings on that insidious, pampering mindset that tells them they deserve a break \u2013 just this once.\u00a0<\/p>\n

CLICK HERE FOR MORE FOX NEWS OPINION<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

I\u2019m not talking about kicking back on the couch with a bag of chips. Not that kind of a break.\u00a0<\/p>\n

I\u2019m talking about succumbing to the lie that it\u2019s OK to run to a favorite vice. No one escapes this impulse. We\u2019re tempted run to whatever ultimately harms us, because it\u2019s easy to convince ourselves that it helps. It\u2019s the worst form of self-coddling, and it only harms us in the end.\u00a0<\/p>\n

What\u2019s the solution?\u00a0<\/p>\n

Get tough. Push through the difficulty. Take a salt tablet and get back to the battle.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Sure, frustrations exist in life. But we don\u2019t need to drink excessively<\/a>. We don\u2019t need the insidious vice of pornography. We don\u2019t need to give in to that moment of rage on the freeway. We really don\u2019t. But it\u2019s so easy to convince ourselves that we do.\u00a0<\/p>\n

By the way, the get-tough-with-yourself strategy works.\u00a0<\/p>\n

W.O. Brown survived the dysentery \u2013 and the war.<\/p>\n

CLICK HERE TO READ MORE BY MARCUS BROTHERTON<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Source – https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/opinion\/ww2-vets-pacific-remind-todays-generations-push-through-difficulty <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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