Stretching your own limits!!!

People with a growth mindset don't just seek challenge, they thrive on it. The bigger the challenge, the more the stretch. And nowhere can it be seen more clearly than in the world of sports. You can always watch people stretch and grow.

Sometimes people with the growth mindset themselves so far they do the impossible. In 1995, Christopher Reeve, the actor was thrown from a horse. his neck was broken, his spinal cord was severed from the brain and he was completely paralyzed below the neck. Medical science said, So sorry, Come to terms with it.

Reeve, however, started a demanding exercise program that involved moving all parts of his paralyzed body with the help of electrical stimulation. Why couldn't he learn to move again? Why couldn't his brain again give commands that his body would obey? Doctors warned that he was in denial and was setting himself up for disappointment. They had seen this before and it was a bad sign for his adjustment. But, really, what else was Reeve doing with his time? Was there a better project?

Five years later, Reeve started to regain movement. First, it happened in his hands, then his arms, then legs, and then torso. He was far from cured, but brain scans showed that his brain was once more sending signals to his body that the body was responding to. Not only did Reeve stretch his abilities, he changed the entire way science thinks about the nervous system and its potential for recovery. In doing so, he opened a whole new vista for research and a whole new avenue of hope for people with spinal cord injuries.

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