Injury changes everything—plans, progress, perspective. But after 40, adaptation is the name of the game. This article explores how to pivot, rebuild, and move forward when things don’t go to plan. Part 3 of the series “More Than Muscle: What Mortality, Setbacks, and Superhumans Reveal.”

Are They Built Different? Part 1 of 3 in More Than Muscle: What Mortality, Setbacks, and Superhumans Reveal Some people seem forged from another material—but the real lesson isn’t in their gifts, it’s in their patterns. This piece explores what sets the superhuman few apart, what actually matters, and what’s adaptable for the rest of us. Because even if you weren’t born “different,” you were born to change.