I learned to be Stoic at age 2 and at age 4

I learned not to fight whooping cough and just to "die" instead. Children who fight the cough exhaust themselves and often die around 2. I learned to let go and to die instead.

I learned at 4 to let the dentist pull my front teeth out without novacaine because my father asked it of me.

So, from age 2 and age 4 my stoicism was set. My future was set. I would succeed no matter what. And I did.

This didn't make life easy but it taught me how to survive anything by the time I was 2 to 4 years old.

Knowing how to stay calm and survive anything is the key to survival always. If you can stay calm and level headed you will always survive even when others don't.