Aristotle is claimed to have said once something like this: “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit.”
How many times do you tell yourself that something is too hard, that you’re not going to make it, that you’re not strong enough or anything like that?
Well, I’ll tell you that there are not many limits to what you can achieve about your life and yourself if you really set your mind and will into it. Let’s see some examples here, and I am pretty excited about those because it really motivates me to see the human ability of overcoming difficulties.
Aimee Mullins was born without her fibular bones. She had both of her legs amputated below her knees when she was about a year old. That would have definitely made her life somewhat harder than the average people’s lives, and maybe you’d feel pity for her as your first impression. Well, think again.
Aimee Mullins is a champion sprinter who has set world records at the 1996 Paralympics in Atlanta
Here she talks at TED about how her legs allow her to go beyond her regular limits.
So, that’s not just one person’s achievement; on Youtube, a young boy named Max Runham has near 500 subscribers and over 18,000 views of his videos playing the guitar, and he sounds really good to me.
When I was a kid, people used to say that in the future we would be able to build prosthetic devices that enable nerves to feel and control artificial limbs, just like in science fiction movies. Thanks to those who worked really hard and believed in it, that is a near reality as the article below shows. How many people do you think have ever said that it was never going to be possible?
No matter how hard you fall, what difficulties you find along the way, life is always going to be what you do about it; you are going to be forged and measured by what you overcome to succeed. If there is something indomitable, that is human spirit. Have you been looking at yours lately?
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