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the cruelest teacher who never warns you about the test, then hands you the diploma anyway
means A state of serious hardship, misfortune, or difficulty that tests a person's resilience.
from From Latin *adversitas*, built on *adversus* meaning "turned against" — the past participle of *advertere*, "to turn toward" (*ad-* "to" + *vertere* "to turn"). The same *vertere* spins through a whole family of English words: *convert*, *reverse*, *divert*, *versus*. So adversity is, quite literally, the world turned against you — fate pivoting on its heel to face you down. It reached English through Old French *adversité* in the medieval period.
- diamond math
- carbon needs immense pressure to become a gem
- word roots
- Latin for turned against you
- muscle logic
- strength grows only by tearing fibers first
- survival quirk
- trees in wind grow deeper, stronger roots
- post-trauma
- some people grow measurably after their worst years
nelson mandela's 27 years — imprisoned on robben island from 1962-1989 before becoming south africa's first black president
oprah winfrey's poverty — born to unmarried teenage mother in rural mississippi, wore dresses made of potato sacks in 1950s