And again, I ain't entirely sure how this came to mind, or maybe I do know ...

Flashback to school days, one of many, when I was struggling against a much beefier and heftier dude.

"I dont know where he gets his strength from!" I recall dude exclaiming after he had me pinned in a bear hug, or so he THOUGHT.

I had second thoughts!

I was skinny as skinny is when growing up ... and this wasn't a one off.

Yet, I remember when it came to the tough guys, the other skinny guys would look at me and say "at least you'd give a good account of yourself, not like me!"

Some even called me "well built".

Perspective!

I still remember putting the infamous Gorilla Grip on someone thrice my size and strength when my inner self once took over.

Little hellions we were, hehe. But those times were real!

Right down to the SLAPS and physical punishment, often brutal.

I still remember a comical instance where in 11th grade our cranky Math Teacher (curiously enough my little one has a cranky Math teacher too, Math and females, must be something, hehe) was giving a friend of mine some "tight slaps" for cutting class or "bunking" as they called it in India.

I did too, but I was being ignored in terms of the slapping.

At least until the very end where she suddenly remembered me and gave me one too. Hehe.

Stung!

I remember Dheeraj, my friend telling me, I wonder why you got off easy!

Do you sleep with her, he joked.

LOL.

Nah!

Some others I would have though!

Thats something I hated though, women slapping men is OK, but they never did to other women and of course, God forbid a guy did the same to girls...

I know.

No-one talks about these things, but fair's fair, goose and gander and so forth.

No, I ain't pimping my book on combating Nazi feminists here, but for those interested - here it is - LINK to book.

I couldn't bothered to type the whole dang thing out. Hehe. It's so long!

No pun intended, guys.

Anyway, perhaps the most and best example of "having no quit" is the Stone cold Steve Austin - Bret Hart "say I quit" match - no holds barred until the other person says "I quit" - obviously scripted as the WWE is, but done damn professionally as they do things (Vince is a genius!) at Wrestlemania or something - do y'all remember that one?

I bet!

Ole Steve "lost" the match.

But as he "passed out bleeding" he didnt lose.

He never said I quit.

And that famously turned him into the icon that he is now - that was the start of the steve Austin era, of the likes of which there will NEVER be again, period. He was - is - one of a kind! (though I hear he drinks more wine and vodka than beer NOW, hehe). (he could probably still crack open a few tho!).

Beaten, bloodied, a warrior till the end, thats something I've always had naturally.

Something I've worked to inculcate in me.

You might not be the biggest and best, most talented, and strongest.

But you can work to get there.

You can learn from those that have been there. And the school of hard knocks, and failure and getting your ass kicked and being man enough to accept it and learn from it is key, and how it's done. You learn more, curiously enough, from losing than you do from winning . . .

. . . even odder, or maybe not, that is how WINNING is done.

Anyway, you might not be the biggest and baddest.

But you CAN be the one that doesnt quit no matter what, that keeps going no matter what, that keeps going even when the odds are stacked - big time - against you.

All real winners in life and any other sphere know what I mean.

And my fitness systems build gumption like that from the inside out like no other.

To learn more, perhaps THIS is the best place to start.

I'll see y'all soon.

Best,

Rahul Mookerjee