When your ship is suddenly beset with a great storm, you aren’t upset that your breakfast bagel was more toasted than you prefer or that traffic was pretty bad earlier this morning.
The crisis gives you an instant clarity on the things that really matter.
You’ve probably run into people who have never had these crises in their life and thus have a terribly skewered idea of what matters. Or maybe you have run into people who have had multiple crises, but drink or drug them away, thus wasting prime opportunities of growth that they were handed.
When you have clarity about what matters, you also have clarity about what doesn’t matter. In that state of mind, there is much less distraction and stress even after the crisis subsides and life returns to normal.