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How Your Biggest Obstacles Make You a Bigger Hero
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- I used to tell myself that this is going to be part of the story I would tell.
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0:00If you think about yourself as the hero of your own story, what creates the strength of the hero? The obstacle. The monster. The bigger the monster, the bigger the hero. I used to tell myself that this is going to be part of the story I would tell. The many disadvantages that you have become advantages to the story that you have. If you have those disadvantages to you, you can become the hero of that story and you become a bigger hero because of the things that you had the opportunity to overcome.
0:27And so like that becomes the part of the story that you can tell. And those become the monsters that you slay and also pave the path for everybody behind you who doesn't think it's possible.