Title: Adversity Makes Us Stronger | T NATION
Headings: Adversity Makes Us Stronger
Adversity Makes Us Stronger
It Begins With Responsibility
The Greatest Success Factor
Adversity Makes You Stronger

Content: Once you adopt this as a philosophy for governing your life, you become empowered. You see that you and you alone decide your future through the choices you make. This philosophy is the key to unlocking your potential. By doing so you not only assume responsibility, you also assume control over everything in your life. Successful people choose to learn from adversity and allow it to make them stronger, while weaker people use adversity as a crutch to blame their failures on. Yes, bad things may happen to you that appear to be beyond your control (developing testicular cancer was one such occurrence for me) and you may not always be able to control those instances. But you can always control how you react to them. You can see them as learning experiences and opportunities to grow into something better, or you can use them as excuses that will ultimately hold you back from reaching your true potential and lead you down a path to mediocrity… or worse. Believing that my choices directly affect the quality of my life has allowed me to fight through much adversity. As a child, I was surrounded by drinking and drug use and could’ve easily gone down that path, but I also had many goals.