Why were you misled about toughness in your teens?
Have you ever heard of the Junction Boys? They were the Texas A&M football team in 1954, known for making it through a tough ten-day training camp under Coach Paul "Bear" Bryant. Out of over 100 players, only eight made it through.
But guess what? It wasn't these eight who led the team to a big win two years later. The new guys hadn't gone through Bryant…