"History has demonstrated that usually the most notable champions overcame the most heartbreaking obsticles before they triumphed.
They won because they refused to become refused to become discouraged by their defeats"

if relative opposites are polarized, as I believe they are, the more off balance anything is the greater the magnetic pull in the other direction...

hardship pushes towards success... doesn't mean it will lead to but if the will or body is not too broken it will push back... sneak up on someone and start to push them and they will resist.

Obviously some get pushed over but the magnetizing polar affect exists...

lets same your strength is a 5 out of 10 and you come across a 9 obstacle... you're likely fucked. Lets same you look at 4, 5 and even 6 level obstacles and over come them then you strength moves up to a 6.

If Lance Armstrong taps into the strength he used to overcome cancer, most of lifes lessor obstacles will seem very small even if to others they seem large.

I think we can dig deep and raise our strength levels... say a Mum lifting a car off a child. With big enough desire or reason, faith or belief, we can raise our strength levels... but that motivation needs to be bigger then our resistance.

So either Lance's strength (assuming there is truth in any of the above) was higher than the obstacle either his over all level or because he tapped into some motivating power to raise his strength levels.

So the question for me is how to raise my strength levels (such as seeking challenges I CAN, though not easily, over come and also finding desire and motivation and reason for moving in my desired direction that is a greater number than the obstacles ahead.

The monarch butterfly has a tough time breaking out of his cocoon... help him out and he will not be able to fly.. these things cross oceans I think... the point is clearly that struggle, if it doesn't kill you or parts of you and if you can learn from it will make you stronger...

I think I could embrace my struggles more and in learning from them and knowing I am strengthening... well I think that would also give me more strength to face them...

Thanks Lance and Marco S :)