Reminder to the young crowd (<35) to stop playing the home comparison game with similar age contemporaries (especially those living in major metro markets).
You have no idea who got gifted $250K+ from family for down-payments.
Be happy for people. Focus on your own race.
Henry Cejudo in his legendary career:
🏆 Former UFC bantamweight champion
🏆 Former UFC flyweight champion
🏆 1 of 4 fighters to hold two belts simultaneously
🏆 Olympic gold medalist
WHAT A RUN FOR TRIPLE C 👏 #UFC323
57 kg Gold – Helen Maroulis 🇺🇸 dec. Il Sim Son 🇰🇵, 3-2 #WrestleZagreb
Maroulis adds to her legacy with a fourth World Championships gold medal. She now owns 8 World medals (4 gold, 2 silver, 2 bronze) and 3 Olympic medals (1 gold, 2 bronze).
Nobody tells you this when you start wrestling…
They don’t tell you how hard it’s going to get.
They don’t tell you about the early mornings.
The workouts that break you down and the practices that leave you questioning if you really want this.
They don’t tell you about the weekends you’ll spend in a gym while your friends are out living “normal” lives.
Or how holidays start to feel more like weigh-in days than celebrations.
They don’t tell you what it feels like to step on the scale, dehydrated and drained, praying you made weight only to still have to go out and wrestle hours later.
They don’t tell you how lonely it gets.
How brutal this sport is on your body, your mind, your spirit.
But they also don’t tell you what it gives you.
They don’t tell you how wrestling teaches you to suffer with purpose.
How it forges discipline in places you didn’t even know were weak.
How it trains your mind to keep showing up.. especially on the days you don’t feel like it.
They don’t tell you that through the pain, the pressure, the heartbreak…
You will find a version of yourself you didn’t even know existed.
Stronger. Sharper. Hungrier.
They don’t tell you that one day you’ll look back and realize that everything you went through. the early mornings, the cuts, the setbacks.
wasn’t just about wrestling.
It was about becoming the kind of person who doesn’t quit.
The kind of person who keeps going when it’s hard, when it hurts, when no one’s watching.
The kind of person who can walk into any storm and not flinch.
That’s what this sport gives you. if you let it.
Not everyone makes it.
But if you stick with it, wrestling will shape you into the kind of person who can handle anything.
And that…
That’s worth every drop of sweat, every loss, every ounce of doubt.
Because wrestling doesn’t just build athletes.
It builds warriors.
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@itsthewealth4me I agree, I think 10k carries a more realistic approach and those habits will build from there. First gen investor here and can attest to it, set and forget is huge too.
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