This is a post outside of my usual scope of just talking about fitness or how to be better at fitness. Recently I posted an article written by Ray Allen where he writes a letter to his younger self, telling the thirteen-year-old version of himself to keep working and keep working hard. The article had me thinking about my younger years and how those years shaped who I am today. After some self-reflection I realized my younger life revolved entirely around sports, and sports are the reason I am who I am today. Sports taught me everything. How to win, how to lose, how to make friends, how to work with people I don’t like but most of all it taught me how to work hard. I believe more than anyone that some people are born with raw talent, but I also think that not everyone is born with the...