formal education. One day when Natalie du Toit was riding home from swim practice on a scooter, she got hit by a car and ended up losing her leg.  Determined not to let the injury stop her through commitment she went on and won 4 gold medals at the 2004 Paralympic games.  Knowing she could do even more Natalie qualified to compete at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, and became the first female amputee swimmer ever to qualify for the Olympics where she placed 16th in a field of 24 in the 10,000m swim. Helen Keller needs no narrative. The following all have dyslexia, Ozzie Osbourne, Charles Schwab, Henry Winkler, Ingvar Kamprad (founder of IKEA). Amazing activist Sojourner Truth was born a slave. Babe Ruth was an orphan.  He learned to play baseball growing up in orphanages. Bo Diddley's parents were too poor to care for him.  He was adopted. Malcolm X's father died when Malcolm was still a boy.  His mom had a breakdown and was institutionalized. He was put in an orphanage. Sarah Reinertsen is an amputee and an Ironman athlete. The list goes on and on just as the circumstances and challenges do.  The point is, it isn't the circumstances, it is the attitude that matters.