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Monday 29th January 2017
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PII 051: One State of Mind You Need to Defeat Adversity
In last week’s issue of my Performance Improvement Ideas (PII) newsletter, I talked about how you need to share your vision with others. How you need to infect other people with your enthusiasm and insights.
Now, in this issue I’m going to talk about poverty.
I’m sure many who read the above will wonder what I mean by that.
Well, I’m talking about poverty in material terms, in financial terms and also poverty in terms of your psychology or psychological makeup.
With regard to the latter, you can have a poverty of ideas, or a poverty of self-esteem.
So poverty can manifest itself in many shapes and forms.
However the primary kind of poverty I refer to here is the poverty in financial and material terms.
Consider the following for a moment…
Think about any area of Endeavour you know in any part of the world you are aware of.
Have you noticed that some of the most amazingly successful people the world has ever seen are people that came from backgrounds in which they had to endure what you might call crippling visitations of poverty, often from the very early stages of their lives?
Ever noticed that?
Think about some of the most successful people you’ve ever heard of, who have made this world what it is. People who have become high level achievers in various areas of Endeavour.
You’ll find out that a large majority of them were exposed to severe forms of adversity very early on in their lives.
In other words they came into the world, and were probably born into poverty (I mean materially and financially) and had to learn to hustle at a much earlier age in life than most other people of their age, background, culture etc – especially those from the middle income and upper social classes.
So they were people born into a situation of perpetual lack, characterized by shortages of basic necessities and a chronic absence of most things resembling conveniences or luxuries of life.
Having to grow up seeing other people not suffering like they did taught them to grow up learning to fight to get what they wanted, so they could also have the nice things they desired.
People who have had to live like that, very early in life in particular, tend to grow up with a near insatiable urge to make the most of themselves using the often severely limited means and resources available to them.
That’s why we find that some of the best footballers – indeed sports persons – in the world, came from backgrounds of extreme poverty.
A good example is the legendary Pele from Brazil. I’m sure you can think of others.
Consider other fields or vocations and the trend is readily apparent. You find that some of the most authentic achievers in the world, who changed our views of what could be called impossible by the achievements they recorded in spite of great adversity, were people that came from poor backgrounds.
When they are interviewed, most will say things like:
“I had no shoes”
“I only had one set of clothes.”
“I was always hungry, had to go without food”
“I had to sell newspapers to make ends meet”
In other words, they were people that were driven by their circumstances!
Life dealt them a harsh hand from the start, and they had to claw their way out of the hole of hardship and suffering into success and fulfillment.
They were people that never had enough of what they saw other people having and so they were constantly motivated by a desire to also create for themselves some amount of comfort by working hard.
This was because they found out that they could not just sit back and wait for others to do things for them – like they saw those from privileged backgrounds doing.
Many had to work with their parents in certain cases – and some even lost their parents, so that they had to fend for themselves and literally become adults overnight.
That psychological state was what enabled them develop the mental stamina to deal with difficulty or adversity.
And that ultimately made them people who were unstoppable whenever they chose to pursue success with purpose.
The essence of what I’m saying therefore is this:
If you want to achieve success in life, that is authentic and sustainable, in any area of Endeavour – whether you are born poor or rich – you have to develop the same kind of psychological stamina that the people who grow up in poverty possess!
You have to force yourself to develop it. If you don’t force yourself to develop that kind of mental capability, it’s going to be very difficult for you to deal with the hardships you may encounter in the course of pursuing authentic achievement in life.
Psychological stamina is one state of mind that is essential for every person that wishes to achieve success in spite of adversity.
But not everyone knows how to go about it.
And that’s why you need to become a student of success.
That’s why you need to read the true stories of those who have succeeded, and also read the philosophies of success explained in books like Napoleon Hill’s Think and Grow Rich.
Related Articles
1. Succeeding In spite of Poverty (3 Tips You Can Use)
2. Proof That Poverty Cannot Make People Steal…If They Don’t Want To (A True Story)
3. How Exposure To Poverty & Trial-By-Fire Can Be Deliberately Used To Prepare People To Succeed
4. No. 116: We Are Poor – Not Because of God (Lessons from 7 True Stories)
5. [PDF]A “Formula” Schools Need to Teach But Don’t! – Tayo Solagbade
6. To Achieve AUTHENTIC Success, Make Adversity Your Teacher and Friend
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