On the topic of stamina, there’s a section in The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, where the author Stephen R. Covey tells how he was instructed by his coach to try some bench presses, and to see how many repetitions he could do with a significant weight. Covey learned through this experience that the body gets stronger when you reach breaking point. It’s the

Parents have told me how their kids were involved in some sport and were competing, but then, at one point, the child decided to stop competing. There are many reasons for this: losing interest in the sport, a bully picking on fellow team members, becoming a teenager, changing friends, moving to another school, city, or country. However, these parents recalled that their kid was having