What is the pinnacle of strength?
The accumulation of physical conditioning, mental fortitude, and spiritual enlightenment will always find itself sitting not atop the conquered foes beneath it, but underneath the arm of the weak, helping them to reach the same heights in belief that they too can succeed.
If you want to be a leader, being at the front of the pack is still only 2nd place. A leader is the person helping out the weakest member of the team, encouraging them, and showing them what’s possible. Being a leader looks like a small step above 2nd place, but in actuality it is such a giant leap ahead that true leadership is almost insurmountable to most people and is rarely taken on in a way that honors its role and potential.
The legacy of our heroes is not that they were the best at what they did, or that they accomplished an incredible feat of human accomplishment, it is that what they did causes our very souls to encounter a higher calling for what we’re capable of, what we want to become, just by witnessing how they lived.
If you want to be the strongest in your team, don’t aim for the front of the pack, aim to achieve your own work first, and then to support those who struggle with theirs.
Train hard, so that your attitude towards your team goes from “keep up” to “I will not leave you behind”.