Comment by evgeniysharapov

All that still might be true, but there are a lot of instilled/inculcated principles or "rules of life" if you will. They might seem contradictory but those principles/rules fire up in certain situations differently. Hence there's no manual that one may read and follow, but rather it requires "to live" to gain that "lived experience" that would make applying those rules subconscious. One example of such rule, which I do have, by nature of growing up until my twenties in Russia is - "do not be a victim". Under no circumstance be a victim. Always turn lemon into a lemonade and make sure no one saw you being a weak/victim. There are different ways of doing it, but in light of recent events I see that this plays quite a lot. It's endurance and resilience and repeating like mantra, that these sanctions, this confrontation, as painful as they are, are to our benefits and we will better them.