How can I overcome insurmountable challenges?

It's not often this happens, but on TikTok recently I was exposed to this brief thing. TikTok is this mindfuck in many ways that I'm still trying to wrap my head around. But this particular one was one of these things, yes, this just crystallizes it, which was one of these quote things that come up. The quote was, "Don't wish for things to be easier, wish for you to be stronger," or, "Work for you to be stronger." That idea that you should not wish for the world to be any different than it is, that's outside of your control. You control your response to that. You control your reaction to that, both short term and long term. You're like, "Shit. This was difficult. Man, I better get stronger so the next time it comes around, I'm better." It won't be difficult. In fact, it will be easy. This is one of the lessons I've learned over and over again in every single domain. These things that seem like insurmountable challenges early on when you're just getting started, they will be nothing once you're a little further.

It's funny because in racing, for example, I'll sometimes take someone out in a race car, in a two-seater race car. Because I have a passenger and whatever, I dial it back. I drive at 90%. Driving at 90%, for me, means I have time for all sorts of other things. We can be chatting about where we're going. I can be pointing things out on the track. I'm not using 100% of my capacity to drive the car as fast as I can, but invariably I take someone out and they're all mortified. They think we're just about to crash at every turn. They think the car's totally out of control. They're getting dizzy. Their head starts bobbing back and forth. I come in, I'm like, "What? This was nothing." They go like, "Please stop the car." This was insane, right?

It reminds me every single time that this was how I felt the first time I was in a racing car. I felt like this. Everything was just coming at me so fast. I can't even think. Then you do it more and you get better. You develop your eye, you develop your reflexes, you develop your synapses such that they literally run at a higher clock frequence. When they do, all the inputs slow down and now it's easy. Imagine playing tennis with a Federer, but you slow down the ball 100 times. That's not a difficult tennis match. That's an easy tennis match. So much of learning is the capacity to slow down reality in real time just that you're no longer dealing with such difficult problems.