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Becoming Superhuman

Everything Is an Opportunity: Turning Problems Into Opportunities

There’s no such thing as what we call “luck”

Lorenz Duremdes, Polymath
Becoming Superhuman
3 min readNov 29, 2019

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Turn your problems into opportunities

I truly believe one of the greatest skills and wisdom we can learn, is to not let anything go to waste: the present, your life, and especially opportunities.

Let’s take a quote from the famous Roman Emperor, Marcus Aurelius also known as the Philosopher King:

While it’s true that someone can impede our actions, they can’t impede our intentions and our attitudes, which have the power of being conditional and adaptable. For the mind adapts and converts any obstacle to its action into a means of achieving it. That which is an impediment to action is turned to advance action. The obstacle on the path becomes the way.” — Marcus Aurelius

He clearly makes a distinction between the actions we perform and our intentions, and how we have the latter within our control. Maybe this quote makes that concept more clear:

You are only responsible for the effort, not the outcome. — Bryant McGill

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Lorenz Duremdes, Polymath
Becoming Superhuman

Primary: Intelligence Amplification (Overlap: Computer Science) | Secondary: Sports (Data) Science (Specialization: Road Cycling and Resistance Training)