Prejudice, internal versus internal conflicts, perseverance, athleticism, commitment, fight until the end regardless everything; All this adjetive and words describe and demonstrate perfect who was Billy Mills. During his life, he was a perfect example of, whats never given ups means. He was a Gold medalist winner of the Olympics, asome friend, and a good person that has his internal dilemas and despite themes he was able to ignore racial prejudice and give example to how a person should respond to those bad influences.
The attitude of Billy toward live, can be summarised in a 10,000meters race; resistance. Not just to sprint like in a 100meter fast run. This was his perspective toward the world, always trying to achieve his goal, to win, no mater the obstacle in the middle. The same happen in his life, he was always stigmatised by others how feel superior to him, or think they deserve more than him and he will never made his goals. In my opinion, he has so confident to him self, which made him so much better and stronger to what normally he could be, but, this confidence was the product of all his defeats, all the prejudice he have, all the bad and external influences over him, all that feeling of othering by the one's who surround him, that make his internal personality bigger and a stronger.
We need to learn more about people like him; although he had a lot of factors against him he never gave up and finished his goal. He succeeded!!
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