Dear WSO: What're your two biggest awards or distinctions?

How did you get them, over how long a period of time?

I'll start - my two are my black belt in Taekwondo and some random tournament win. Took me five years for my belt, tournamnet win was pretty quick haha.

Yours?

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Used to be nationally ranked wrestler. 2-time provincial champ. Was training very hard towards the 2012 Olympics. ....Two (severely) dislocated shoulders put an end to that dream. However, I won a provincial championship with one of my shoulders out of place :).

Almost got my black-belt in TKD at age 13, but I just got really bored and left.

Im an athlete at heart.

 

At one point during my senior year of high school was ranked #76 globally in Minesweeper.

Sold over 600 copies of my first album.

 

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