Rising to a difficult challenge is easily confused with submitting to a difficult demand.

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When all difficulties are euphemistically categorized as “challenges” it becomes impossible to discuss the difference ennobling and degrading difficulties.

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If all problems are challenges, and therefore growth opportunities, why not passively accept anything circumstance throws at you? Why have career goals, when whatever you are assigned can only help you better yourself? Isn’t it true that even boring tasks are challenging to those clever enough to see them as interesting?

I suppose it is possible to challenge these points, but all that would come of it is boring the hell out of people with pointless argument and being perceived as a problem.

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Investing energy in a strength yields more strength than investing energy in a weakness.

A person in a position of strength picks his challenges. What he picks are those problems that help him develop and maximize his strengths. The stronger he becomes the more he determines what he does or does not do — and also what others do or do not do. He shunts unwelcome, weakening problems away from himself and “challenges” others to overcome them.