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Wilma Rudolph was born prematurely 4.5 pounds  in Clarksville, Tennessee on June 23, 1840. At the age of 4, she nearly died of double pneumonia, scarlet fever and polio, which finally led to paralysis of her left leg. She lived physically disable for most of her early life.

She wore leg braces for 6 years. At the age of 12, leg braces was removed and started to work normally. Doctors gave her a little hope of working the legs normal.

The punchline: Rudolph won three gold medals in 1960s Olympics in Rome, Italy.  She was acclaimed the fastest woman in the world in the 1960s and became the first American woman, to win three gold medals in a single Olympic Games. Rudolph and her achievements are memorialized in a variety of tributes, including a U.S. postage stamp, documentary films, and a made-for-television movie, as well as in numerous publications, especially books for young readers.

She once said, "I loved the feeling of freedom in running, the fresh air, the feeling that the only person I'm competing with is me."

Failures and rejections are not the end. They are a chance to learn more, grow further, and develop a stronger attitude.

In 1978, Michael Jordan was cut from his high school varsity basketball team. There were 15 spots, and 15-year-old Jordan was not selected because he was only 5'10". Later, Jordan said, “It was embarrassing not making the team.” He went home, locked himself in his room, and cried.

But that was not the end of his story. Rejection became part of what pushed him to improve. What looked like a painful setback at the time became part of a much bigger future.

That is often how rejection works. What feels final in one moment may later prove to be only part of the preparation. The real end comes only when we stop improving after the setback.

You are the designer of your life and you can shape it as you want. Don't let the head filled with belief that other people can define you.

You seek no more approval from peers or others. You can be your own decider when you define yourself.

But defining yourself might be a difficult "journey" and you might've no clue where to start. The tip is start by analyzing your core values based on which you can define yourself.

If you were offered a choice between being an architect for $60,000 per year or working in a kiosk for the rest of your life for $100,000 per year, which would you prefer? Most people instinctively lean toward the former, even though it pays less. This preference reveals a fundamental truth about work ethic and the long game: we are wired to seek progression.

The kiosk job offers financial security but denies you the opportunity to learn and evolve. In contrast, working as an architect provides a direct connection between effort and reward. It is a path that demands growth. This type of work is inherently self-governing; you are not merely waiting for a boss to provide approval, you are exercising your own judgment and building your own expertise.

This sense of agency is what we are actually searching for. True fulfillment does not come from a large paycheck or the ease of a relaxing job. It comes from the work that challenges us and allows us to expand our capabilities.

When we prioritize the process of growth over the immediate reward of a salary, we align ourselves with a sustainable career path. Wealth is a byproduct of high quality work, but the work itself must be something that makes us more capable over time. Finding work that fulfills this internal need is the only way to maintain the endurance required for the long game.

All the difficulties, misfortune and hardships we've to face along the way are the adversities. The pain and traumas we encounter in the process are the adversities.

Opportunity, on the other hand, is the set of circumstances that makes something possible to do, something we dream about or we care a lot about. It is the possibility to move forward and take actions.

And the hard reality?

We seek opportunities and avoid adversities and setbacks not realizing that what start out as adversity end up being an opportunity.

To win a war we most win many- many battles. But in this battle of life, the greatest enemy are not the real enemies, but ourselves. As we'll know how we are pulling ourselves from our next move.

Because of the fear of losing, we are holding our-self back from our action.  We rely too much on other's perspective of ourselves and seek others approval not realizing that the greatest approval is self-approval. We are abiding own-self from it.

So, our greatest enemy is our SELF.

Waking up early in the morning is hard.

Doing exercise early in the morning is hard.

Meditating every day is hard.

Understanding yourself is one of the hardest things you will ever do.

Choosing to work on your craft every weekend while others are at parties is hard.

Standing aside from the masses and going against them is hard.

Deciding what you truly want to do with your life and figuring out your next move in the face of impossibility is hard

Moving forward in spite of difficulty and uncertainty is an immense challenge.

But this is exactly the reason why we should do these things. In the context of a long game, a disciplined work ethic is not about ease; it is about transformation. Doing hard things builds a foundation of confidence that cannot be shaken by external circumstances. It enhances our self-respect, improves our internal strength, and makes us more alive over time.

This friction is what makes us grow. By choosing the difficult path of the process over the easy path of the crowd, we build the endurance necessary to stay in the game. Real growth only happens when we embrace the hard work that others avoid. These daily choices are the structural pillars of a life built to last.

The end of every beginning won't be the way we wanted it to be. The end of our journey isn't always peaceful or jovial.

Priority changes.

Time flows.

Experiences assemble.

Our notions change.

But the end?

Its physical meaning doesn't change; it is death. But it is more than physical. It is about how we end up ourselves, it is about what mark we live in the earth. And it rely on your work ethic.

We all possess two types of mind: the advancing and the competitive mind.

Advancing mind always tends to learn more, thrive more, do more, improve more and experience more. On the other hand, the competitive mind mainly focuses on other's act and tends to make own-self more superior.

We are deprived of advancing in this world because of the competitive mind....

Everything we do shouldn't about competition, it should be about advancing ourselves, it should be about experiencing new adventures or things, testing new experiments for success, overcoming new problems and failures.

Human beings have a tendency to inflate small problems into psychological burdens. A comment, mistake, embarrassment, disagreement, or temporary setback can occupy our thoughts for days even though, in the larger scale of life, it changes very little.

Much of suffering comes not from the event itself, but from the meaning we attach to it. Stoic philosophy repeatedly emphasized that perception shapes emotional experience. Buddhism similarly teaches that attachment and mental fixation intensify suffering beyond the original condition.

We waste enormous amounts of energy, emotion, and attention on things that do not deserve such power over us. The mind rehearses scenarios, exaggerates consequences, and treats temporary moments as permanent realities.

Most things matter far less than we think they do in the moment. The difficulty is not reality itself, but our tendency to psychologically enlarge it.