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Have any philosophers talked about turning human weakness into strength?

Nietzsche is the obvious one of course, turning suffering into strength. Or more accurately maybe strength is born of suffering in his view

But as somebody who has mostly read Schopenhauer, Pascal, and Buddhist thought, I think they make pretty strong cases about how the myriad imperfections in human existence makes it pretty damn miserable. We never stop desiring, we never stop fearing, we're hounded all our lives by the endless changes in ourselves and the world.

But I know at least from just popular culture and media that some people interpret this as a positive. Man's restlessness drives us to great things and without desire or fear, we might have done nothing great at all. I would assume much smarter people have written on it though and was curious if anyone here could suggest some?

Thank you in advance.
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Judith Butler writes a lot about turning vulnerability and precarity into power by using them as a means of identifying with other vulnerable and precarious people to create mass movements. The argument is set out in her book, Precarious Life, and explored in practice in her edited volume, Vulnerability in Resistance.