Some of the biggest turning points in a life do not feel significant while they are actually happening. Dwayne Johnson has described exactly that experience from his own life. "The men I idolised built their bodies and became somebody, like Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger, and I thought, 'That can be me.' So I started working out," he said. "The funny thing is I didn't realise back then that I was having a defining moment." It reads like an ordinary story about a teenager picking up weights, and that is really the whole point. The moment did not announce itself as important. It only became one, decades later, once the rest of his life had already been built on top of it.
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