Every negative situation contains the possibility of something positive. It’s how you look at it that matters.
If there are circumstances you cannot control,make the best of them.
Your lack of resources force you to be more inventive with the little you have. A lost battle teaches you your weaknesses &provides the opportunity to frame yourself as a sympathetic underdog.
Nietzsche wrote:
“…all over the earth sit men who are waiting,scarcely knowing they are waiting,much less waiting in vain. …the call that awakens them comes too late,when the best youth and strength for action has been used up by sitting still;and they have found to their horror when they ‘leaped up’that their limbs had gone to sleep and their spirit had become too heavy that it is too late.”