Adversity Inc (Part III): Mental Strength

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The connection between the physical world, the mental world and the mathematical world is fascinating and intriguing at the same time.

The abstract concepts which the Homo sapiens created among those worlds, proved to be so effective for creating the foundations of the civilization.

You can imagine those leaders invoking abstract concepts to convince and motivate their team in order to commence and accomplish difficult endeavors, based in ideas that their followers couldn't touch or watch but fully trusted based in real past facts.

Sooner, the mental strength was as essential as the physical strength and mutually related.

The mental strength was essential to keep the leaders with the focus and calm required when faced tough decisions due to the external natural cycles or due to pressure performed by other groups or when required to provide justice among their owns.

We don't know when happened, but happened. One of the toughest between the toughest just decided to plan far ahead of his own lifespan, even more, far ahead of their sons lifespan, seeding the foundation for the civilization.

Commence something bigger than you and your current generation and pretend that future generations will enjoy the greatest benefits, was quite remarkable.

Hence, the mental world play a fundamental role to commence the human civilization and seed the required skills for the new generations.

Mental toughness was essential to face periods of scarcity and difficulty, but also to keep the control during periods of abundance.

Mastering the mental strength was so important to keep the internal microcosmos in complete control and order even if the entire macrocosmos was facing chaos and disarray.

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