#10 How Rafael Nadal Learned to Enjoy Suffering

Rafael Nadal won 14 French Open titles, more clay titles than anyone who has ever played the game. People reach for the word talent. Nadal says it was suffering, and learning to enjoy it.This episode is built on three words from Christopher Clary's book The Warrior — suffer, persist, surpass. It follows the boy his uncle Toni trained to treat every problem as solvable, the competitor who raced only against himself, and the champion who at 30 lost trust in his own hands and came apart quietly, then kept finding his way back onto the court.The warrior was never the man who never wavered. It was the one who broke where nobody could see it and returned anyway.