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This one, like most battles we fight in life, would be won or lost in our own minds.
Whenever we get swept under by life’s dramas, large and small, we are forgetting that no matter how bad the pain gets, no matter how harrowing the torture, all bad things
end. That forgetting happens the second we give control over our emotions and actions to other people, which can easily happen when pain is peaking.
A few miles later, my lungs seized, and my chest rattled as I hocked up knots of brown mucus. It got cold. I became short of breath. Fog gathered around the halogen street lights, ringing the lamps with electric rainbows, which lent the whole event an otherworldly feel. Or maybe it was just me in that other world. One in which pain was the mother tongue, a language synced to memory.
“fatigue makes cowards of us all”
If you want to master the mind and remove your governor, you’ll have to become addicted to hard work.
Because passion and obsession, even talent, are only useful tools if you have the work ethic to back them up.
A true leader stays exhausted, abhors arrogance, and never looks down on the weakest link. He fights for his men and leads by example. That’s what it meant to be uncommon among uncommon.
