Abdullah Oduro – How To Overcome Your Biggest Loss Iman Cave
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so give me an example of if you
don't mind and we can cut this your
first loss what mistake did you make bro
my first loss was possibly like one of
my biggest lessons you know I was I
was young I was on a four fight
winning streak this is like when I started
MMA everything was happening very quick and I
fought someone that I really was like maybe
three times better than him so everyone I
fought until that fight was considered better than
me and I don't know if I got
a little bit cocky or I just got
I was like in such a hurry to
beat him that I just like dug a
hole and trapped myself in it and I
lost that fight and it was very depressing
it was so depressing like I never even
thought or knew that you know I could
recover from it like alhamdulillah alhamdulillah I'd never
ever was even close to even thinking suicidal
thoughts like yeah that wasn't even something that
ever crossed my mind right but at some
point I was like people that commit suicide
because of depression I can't understand why they
would do like it wasn't ever crossing my
mind but I was like I kind of
get where they're coming from because I just
felt I was I got really famous really
quick and that fight everyone watched it like
I'd go to the masjid people would talk
about it I go to school people would
talk about it everywhere I went people would
talk about it and ask me questions people
thought I even sold the fight off and
got paid because of how much they didn't
expect me to lose that fight and it's
beautiful how you said I understand what people
that commits I understand where what what world
they were in I see it but I
choose not to go so did you have
people around you that were like in your
corner literally and metaphorically so so that's what
helped me really bounce back because my dad
was always in my corner he was with
me in the fight and training camp at
the fights and then I was just I
was feeling so upset and alhamdulillah my dad's
also an imam so he's an imam and
he's also an MMA trainer so you know
I would sometimes I just tell him like
well dad you know why like what why
you know why did I lose like I
did everything I trained so and I'm a
better Muslim than that guy I'm a better
fighter like you know I said everything I
look so why did Allah choose me to
lose like why why me not why didn't
he lose you know and then my dad
started telling me like okay calm down don't
say anything that you know this is a
little dangerous now you're now you're on the
lines of of like you know it's saying
things that are so he humbled me real
quick got me to calm down then he
said you're a fighter right you fight you
fight that doesn't mean you're winning every every
second of every day it means you fight
so whether you you have an opponent and
you beat him you won the fight if
you lost then you have to fight back
and if it's not that same opponent you
fight back within yourself like Satan on and
the loss itself and and now you're being
tested and that's really it you know he
always told me like even when I won
big fights you know we'd celebrate we'd be
so happy he's like by the way this
could still be a test like it's still
part of that test you know how when
you lost you were tested this win could
also be a test so use it use
it to the for the good and alhamdulillah
I you know I still have my mom
I still have my dad they're always here
to like just humble me they keep me
in check no matter what but that that
lesson that my dad father gave me was
to always fight back no matter what like
I mean you could be in rock bottom
just fight back rise up and always try
to find a way tougher things that you
go through in life and then you're like
complaining isn't gonna do anything let me just
fight back and that's where I start to
think what are the steps that I'm gonna
do to fight back