The fact that problems also represent opportunities is one of those truths accepted after several trials, on the other hand, is a phrase that we usually give to our friends to encourage them in difficult times, but that we forget when we are at the bottom of the well.
Problems are not just challenges for intelligence and reason. I wish they were! The difficulty is that these problems also activate many of our most instinctive or automated emotions: fear, anger, prejudice and fear, intolerance?
- So sometimes you end up drowning in a glass of water.
- We lose perspective on what we’re capable of and freeze in fear.
- Run away or just anchor ourselves in the complaint.
- We’re programming to make problems a threat to what’s there.
- There’s no way out.
- We lose sight of the challenges and that if we face them we can be better.
- Let these men and women say they’ve turned their problems into opportunities.
Elizabeth Murray was born in the Bronx, United States, condemned by the circumstances of her surroundings to a complicated childhood. His parents were among the hippies of the 1970s, who succumbed to the world of drugs. At birth, they were two addicts with little chance of recovery as they used cocaine and heroin.
Liz Murray and her sister ate ice cubes and toothpaste because they were the only thing they could find to fill their stomachs. To make matters worse, his parents contracted AIDS and his mother died. His father went to a homeless house and his sister went to live with a friend Liz was literally on the street at the age of 15.
He worked with what appeared. At 17 she returned to school and during a visit to Harvard University, she decided to go there. And he did: he won a scholarship, thanks to the New York Times. Today, she is a successful psychologist who understands human pain better than anyone. She published a best-selling book and her life was made into a movie.
He is the most successful Colombian entrepreneur in the world of men’s fashion. When he was just a kid, his father died. He left a family of eight young children and a widowed mother. To help supplement household money, he began working on a know-how worth of every penny and therefore adapted well to a particularly austere philosophy of life.
When he grew up a little he got a job in which he earned a minimum wage, however he spent several years saving relentlessly, until he realized enough capital to open a small clothing business, his motto was: save and never go intode. .
Thus, he has become a successful entrepreneur who now has his stores in almost all of Latin America, the clothes he sells have a plus: it is economical for its quality, because the company that runs Arturo Calle owes nothing to anyone, this reduces production. He was also considered one of the top 5 employers in Colombia, because in his company all employees have their own home with the help of the company.
Wilma Rudolph was more than a problem, since she was born she struggled: she was premature and doubted her survival, however she survived, but at age 4 she contracted double pneumonia and got polio, plus her family was poor, especially considering she had to support 22 children.
His left leg was virtually unusable and he had to walk with an orthopedic device, despite this, at the age of 9 he decided to try walking unans helplessly and succeeded. team and for the first time trusted his physical abilities. At the age of 13 he decided to practice athletics. In his first career he came last and the same thing happened several times in the following years.
After a few years of practice, he managed to win a race and never stopped on the road to victory. He qualified for the 1956 Melbourne Olympics and won the bronze medal for the United States. And in 1960, he won two gold medals at the Olympic Games in Rome. The three-time Olympic medalist overcacketed a serious polio injury and reached the highest level of athletics in the world.