Basically, the angle centers around that elementary teacher telling his mother he would never amount to anything. That comment lit the fire that led to everything else, as the article and even Phelps would have us believe. I had heard the comment before, but I just never knew how much of a centerpiece it was to his native motivation.
At the end, Phelps trumpets his belief in the powers of the mind.
Basically, the angle centers around that elementary teacher telling his mother he would never amount to anything. That comment lit the fire that led to everything else, as the article and even Phelps would have us believe. I had heard the comment before, but I just never knew how much of a centerpiece it was to his native motivation.
At the end, Phelps trumpets his belief in the powers of the mind.
Thanks for the summary. It's nice that he found an arena in which his native mechanics were ideally suited to his chosen pursuit.
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Great article. In my early early teens I was inspired by similar things as MP. My mother is equally strong willed and really helped me to "break through" as well.
