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with life's difficulties. Being a spectator watching the runners running in the stadium, you would not know how it feels to be running and competing in the field. Seeing is easy. Only when you do it, you understand and you know. Similarly, it is only when one is face with difficulties, will one know how to challenge a situation, to counter attack life's obstacles and to counterstrike every possibilities in order to 'win' or excel. It is during these encounter of failures and obstacles in life that every individual can be trained to develop their inner strength. Every failure and mistakes in life have its own lessons to be learned. It is through constant practice, discipline and determination that helps a runner develop an overwhelming stamina to complete a race within a short time. Similarly, our inner strength, can be developed as we try to gain more wisdom from our daily life's problems. The runners' obstacles are force of gravity and resistance. Our obstacles are all our life's problems that we counter. And everyday, we are 'racing' against time, 'running' in our life daily. How much is your inner strength? Everybody should have inner strength, but it is a matter of how much (just like everybody has a capability to run, not mentioning a handicap person.)

However, the act of practicing and doing things blindly without knowing the knowledge of it, makes a person's work harder. Just like running, if a person read up a book on how to run faster, then he would be able to understand how the body works, how he can reduce resistance etc to run faster. Thus for us, we need to read many books. Reading books, increase our wisdom and knowledge. Why people around us are like that? How to improve our life? There are just so many types of books you can read. Books help to broaden our thinking and by looking at things at a different angles, we gain strengths just like that - knowing more make you more confidence and this naturally increases your inner strength!

To sum up, inner strength is a silent and invisible motivational force in every individual that help a person to react and combat everyday's life, especially in time of crisis to be able to handle it and to be able to adapt to life, to carry on with their life. To develop inner strength, it is like swimming. A swimmer with more practice will gain more stamina and be able to swim better than a beginner. Similarly a person with more exposure to life difficulties, will be 'trained' to gain more inner strength through their life's experiences. And don't forget to read widely, or learn from people!

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