The Oyster Approach
When things get under your skin & annoy you, try and develop the oyster approach.
What's the oyster approach? Well, there's a story about an oyster that finds an irritating grain of sand under its shell. The oyster tried to remove it but couldn't, so, the oyster said, 'If I can’t remove it, I'll try to improve it'. And as time passed by, the grain of sand became a pearl.
Try & remove the things that get under your skin or remove yourself from things that annoy you. If you can't, try & improve yourself or improve the situation. Take the irritant & make it into a pearl.
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