"The Theory of Adversity"

DavidBNJ
3 min readDec 10, 2023

This theory delves into the nature of adversity, emphasizing how internal and external factors, both mental and physical, influence it.

Internal Disturbance is causing adversity.
Internal Disturbance within your mindset.
What is an Internal Disturbance?

**Internal Adversity**:

This type stems from within oneself but can also originate externally (from the past – memories, prior thoughts, and feelings; the present – current experiences, thoughts, interactions; and anticipated psychological challenges in the future that one perceives will cause adversity).

It discusses a comprehensive alphabetic explanation encompassing all adversity types and their meanings, including:

- **Mental Internal Adversity**:

Thoughts, feelings, memories, and current thinking about the past, present, and future, leading to internal mental adversity.

- **Physical Internal Adversity**:

Self-inflicted actions causing adversity, like unhealthy eating leading to weight gain, which might negatively impact mental state and contribute to mental adversity.

**External Adversity**:

This form originates from outside oneself, impacting internal adversity.

- **Mental External Adversity**:

Verbal and visual influences from environments, digital impacts, and other life forms.

- **Physical External Adversity**:

Physical confrontations or abuse that intensify internal mental adversity.

**Internal Disturbance Leading to Adversity**:

Various forms of disturbance can lead to adversity:

- **Human Interaction**:

Present interactions, remote interactions, and even past interactions remembered or anticipated future interactions imagined can disturb thoughts, leading to adversity.

- **Environments and Objects**:

Present actions or observations, and recollections or imaginations of past or future settings and objects, can lead to mental disturbances.

- **Digital Influence**:

Verbal and visual digital content can cause current, past, or future mental disturbances, leading to adversity.

- **Combination Effects**:

Often, a mix of environmental factors, object interactions, and human interactions leads to disturbances and associated adversity.

This short theory thus offers a detailed framework for understanding and categorizing adversity, highlighting its multifaceted nature and the various ways it can manifest and affect individuals.

I wrote this text first in Norwegian, then translated it through chatgpt, it made it shorter and more easily read, so here is the original text:

"The Theory of Adversity"

This theory centers on how internal psychological adversity is affected by both incoming and outgoing conditions, both mentally and physically.

**Incoming Adversity**:

This adversity originates from oneself but can also have external origins (the past – memories, earlier thoughts, and feelings; the present – everything one experiences here and now: thoughts, current thinking, interactions, and future psychological conditions; something felt to create adversity due to upcoming events).

There's a limitation associated with the alphabetical explanation, covering all its combinations on all adversity, which explains/describes all possible forms of adversity and their meanings.

- **Mental Incoming Adversity**:

Thoughts, emotions, memories, and current thinking about: the past, present, and future conditions leading to this type of mental adversity.

- **Physical Incoming Adversity**:

Self-performed actions leading to adversity (incoming), like eating fatty food leading to weight gain, possibly creating either a subconscious or conscious negative mood impacting mental incoming adversity.

**Outgoing Adversity**:

Adversity arising externally, not from oneself, but affecting incoming adversity.

- **Mental Outgoing Adversity**:

Verbal and visual influences from environments, with their objects, digital influence, and other life forms.

- **Physical Outgoing Adversity**:

Unlucky physical confrontations or abuse, intensifying mental incoming adversity.

**Internal Disturbance Leading to Adversity**:

These disturbances come in forms such as:

- **Human Interaction**

(current presence, distance interaction). It's also possible to experience past human interactions in one's mindset, leading to thought disturbances, subsequently causing daily life adversity. Similarly, future human interactions can be simulated in the mind, potentially perceived negatively, causing disturbances and leading to mental incoming adversity.

- **Environments and Their Objects**:

Presence in the now and actions performed or observed, leading to disturbances directly affecting mental incoming adversity. One can also experience past disturbances in various environments, with their objects, in their mindset, leading to incoming adversity. Simulating future environments with their objects, especially those not looked forward to, can lead to disturbances and adversity.

- **Digital Influence**:

The verbal and visual digital aspects both directly and indirectly lead to: current, older/past, and future disturbances in one's mindset, leading to adversity.

- It should also be mentioned that often it's a combination of environments, their objects, and human interaction leading to disturbances and the associated adversity.

Thank you for reading this

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