Strength or patience - which is better

Which is stronger?

Bodybuilder, powerlifter, track n field runner, marathon runner.

Who is strong? What strength is? What does it mean to be strong?

These all are interesting questions. What does it mean when somebody says you have to be strong?

Lately, I have got rid of the concept of strength. It does not matter to me. Because there is something much more powerful in my humble opinion. And this thing is - patience.
Patience is often key to everything. Basically, it means lasting strength. Strength for short periods of time is no strength at all. (Think powerlifter). It means nothing to more mature people.

So, patience is a more lasting type of strength. Now my tone is on one hand like an exercise scientist, on the other hand it's just my philosophical side talking.

Patience is key to everything in REAL life. Strength athletes don't really have REAL lifes. They live into pretty small and controlled environments, often controlled by their coaches, so they have an imposed kind of discipline. Like my father used to say - to have discipline, you must go to the military. They impose discipline on you. It is their system, not yours first of all. Their success, their results, their happiness not yours.

We are talking about your life here, the way you want to be and achieve, not how others would like you to be. YOU WANT TO BE FREE (of course, if you do, like me) from too many limitations imposed from the outside to be happy.

So, choose your own life and exhibit your own discipline with it. Choose your own path and exhibit patience and persistence with it. Don't live by limiting beliefs of others that your upbringing or education system may have imposed (think Einstein who dropped out of school at a young age - a prime example of excellence).

Be brave to choose your own path and go with it. Put 'em blinders on! You need just a little courage and a good blinders.

Look what leaders do. Look at how the presidents and kings are and have been in all ages, learn from their footsteps. They may not have been perfect but you still can learn a lot.

They choose their path and then follow it (sometimes they have to do it until they die, it's like marrying with your path and making it a destiny).

it all also has to do with patience. This is key when it comes to success, I will reiterate it again and again.


Until next time,
Martin