Underdog Articles

The Flawed Perception of the Underdog

Society has long defined an underdog as someone expected to lose—a competitor deemed unlikely to succeed due to systemic or circumstantial disadvantages. Traditional definitions from major dictionaries reinforce this idea, associating underdogs with failure, weakness, and victimhood.

But what if we’ve been looking at it all wrong? What if being an underdog isn’t about struggling to overcome inevitable defeat but about leveraging unique strengths to redefi...