What you should learn from boxers

A boxer, like no one else, is motivated to win, because without proper motivation it is simply impossible to be ready for the upcoming fight, to take punches and hit back. The life hacker understands what these strong and courageous people believe in and what makes them enter the ring again and again.

Boxing is recognized as one of the most traumatic types of martial arts. There are more myths about the dangers of boxing than any other sport. Boxing training is hard, exhausting, invariably painful. Progress is impossible without real fights, so this is constant injury, resistance to increasing damage, attempts to expand our own boundaries.

What is the peculiarity of these athletes, what motivates them and forces them to bandage their hands again and again, put on gloves and enter the ring?

Belief in your destiny and loyalty to it

Boxers believe they are made for boxing. They believe that they are in their place. They choose boxing not just as a sport or a profession - they choose it as a path, as a way of life. A lifestyle in which you are ready to be beaten, tired, exhausted, but after each workout you will be closer to your goal. This choice is not a temporary measure for them. It's forever.

I'm going to always live in a struggle - one way or another.

Mike Tyson

Belief in hard work

Perhaps the boxer, like no other, believes in really hard work. You will not find among the great boxers those who will tell you that he was born a genius and talent. Each of them goes a hard way before achieving success, and only the ability not to deviate from this path and work on themselves makes boxers who they eventually become.

If you want to be a good boxer, you have to push your limits. Otherwise, talent will give you nothing. Others will bypass you because hard work is essential. You have to work as if you have no talent at all.

Roy Jones

Pain is part of their growth

A rather hackneyed principle, which, however, is more often used in a figurative sense. But not in this case. It is boxers who know better than others what real pain is and what real growth is. They are used to enduring and fighting in order to achieve more. Otherwise, progress is simply impossible for them.

Great ones fall too, but you have to get up, whatever the cost. Only after that you will understand what you really are.

Roy Jones

Ability to lose

Undefeated fighters make history if they stay that way for the rest of their careers. But the truth is, one day, defeat happens to everyone. Even Mohammed Ali had defeats on his account, but this does not prevent him from being called “the greatest”. The boxer knows how to accept defeat and learn from it. He knows how to lose.

Real champions are those who, having lost one fight, come out the next and prove that they are worth something.

Roy Jones

No self-pity

Self-pity is something that is usually foreign to these people. The opponent won't feel sorry for you in the ring, and you shouldn't either.

Self-pity often gets in the way of great things. And boxers know it.

The doctor may tell you that if you are feeling tense, it’s better to quit. But if you don’t tense your muscles, you will not get the desired result. You have to keep running even when your legs fail. You must run and run forward - only then will you achieve what you want!

Mohammed Ali

Belief in your capabilities

Boxers are not the ones who stop at difficulties. They strive to become better than themselves in the past and achieve their goals no matter what.

"Impossible" is just a big word behind which little people are hiding. It is easier for them to live in the familiar world than to find the strength to change something. The impossible is not a fact. This is just an opinion. The impossible is a chance to prove yourself. Impossible is not forever. The impossible is possible.

Mohammed Ali

You don't have to be a boxer to believe in yourself and achieve something. You don't have to be an athlete to know the value of hard work and understand why pain is needed. But perhaps the words of great fighters about it will make you look a little differently at training, motivation and success.

Perhaps they will inspire you to achieve something more.