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How to Bounce Back

When you begin to type Marcus Latimore into Google, the first suggestion is injury.

On October 27, 2012, on live television, Marcus Latimore suffered a horrific on-field knee injury that he would never fully recover from.

Latimore was one of those once-in-a-lifetime talents, but in one play, the football career he had built his entire identity round, all, but disappeared.

Sena often said that the growth of anything great is a long process, but that its undoing can be rapid, even instant. For Latimore, it was instant.

Such a devastating injury could have sent him down a spiral of rage, anger, sadness, and grief could have been the last we heard of him. But it wasn't. Instead, Marcus went back to school that earned the degree he promised his mother he'd get.

He started a foundation to help athletes who have trouble paying for treatment and rehabilitation for major injuries. And most recently, he returned to his alma mater as the director of player development, mentoring student athletes for life after football.

He hasn't spiraled, he's thrived, and his impact is now a little quieter, but far more powerful than it would have been in the NFL.

In our interview with Marcus for dailystilic.com, Marcus said he wouldn't change what he went through. He said, the more I detached from the situation and gained a higher perspective, the more I realized how much I had grown up and started looking at the positives.

Without my knee exploding on television, I never would have fully grasped the positive impact I had on people, which influenced starting a non-profit.

I would have never known who was really there for me. If you want to know who your true friends are, go through adversity. I would have never started reading, and I wouldn't have had the self-awareness I have today, which I consider my most prized possession.

In every situation, that, which seems to be the end of our path, can actually be showing us the start of it.

Think back today in your own life. We have all had tough setbacks that have been revealed to be great breakthroughs.

The worst thing that's ever happened to you can become one of the best. Like Marcus, it may just take some detachment and perspective to see it, and it may be painful and it may come slowly, but it can. Be worth it.

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