If an ant carries an object a hundred times its weight, you can carry burdens many times your size.

Matshona Dhliwayo
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If an ant carries an object a hundred times its weight, you can carry burdens many times your size. This quote is sometimes used to encourage people to lift heavy weights, but the meaning of the quote is more profound than it seems. The idea that carrying something repeatedly will make you stronger is related to the law of diminishing returns. The heavier item that you are trying to carry is one thing, but carrying it repeatedly is another. To explain the law of diminishing returns, imagine you are carrying a hundred-pound weight on your shoulder.

After ten minutes, you will only feel the first ten pounds on your shoulder. If you want to be strong, you would have to keep on lifting it for another ten minutes. This goes on until the 100 pound weight feels like nothing at all! Every time you lift an object, either by yourself or with help from others, it takes less and less out of your body until it feels like nothing at all.

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