turn that obstacle into opportunity.

Spartans, welcome back to another episode of the Spartan Way podcast.

I'm your host, Zach Evernesh coming to you from beautiful Boston. We're at Spartan headquarters and today I want to

talk to you about a little excerpt from the book, The Spartan Way and

experiences that I've had as a coach where sometimes our athletes get too conservative or

people email me to ask for advice because they've maybe had an injury or

they've got some sort of a condition and they feel like that condition or that injury

has to put a halt on everything.

So before I get into the stories, listen to these quotes.

I'm going to read you from Chapter 7 embrace adversity these quotes are

powerful fire is the test of gold adversity of strong men, Seneca the Younger.

Unless a man has been kicked around a little,

you can't really depend upon him

to amount to anything.

William Feather, a wounded deer leaps the highest, Emily Dickinson.

I'm just going to read you the opening paragraph here. Most of us have things way

too easy. We face very little adversity in our lives and that's a

shame because adversity builds character. That's why I like to manufacture

adversity. That's from, of course, our friend Joe.

A Spartan race is manufactured adversity.

The obstacles are designed to be really tough

to show people that they can overcome adversity and find growth in the accomplishment.

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