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People get offended by many things when they are insecure: you are not poor because millionaires exist, you are not unpopular because good-looking people exist, you are not average because smart, talented people exist. You are the product of your training, efforts, risk-taking. — Orange Book
It’s You vs You. Truly, it is. You win the Gold medal not because you did better than everyone on the day of the performance, but because of your dedicated, deliberate preparation vs lousy, unguided training, because of your sincere commitment to small improvements of your strengths and weaknesses vs an indifferent attitude to either or both, because of your willingness to compete in the first place vs your resistance to challenge!
It is You vs You because you possess a Healthy Self and a Sick Self. For ages and ages it has always been that way. The two polarities you see around you: good vs evil, love vs hate, loss vs gain, tears vs laughter, etc. are all taking place within you also, and they compete for your attention.
The trick, therefore, to doing well is first accepting that you are both Sick and you are both Healthy. You are capable of being extremely sick if you choose to think so, and you are capable of being almost flawlessly healthy if you commit yourself to that also.
And secondly is it realizing that whomever you become, whatever you make yourself into — is largely dependent on which Self you feed minutely.
Cancelo Alvarez
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