My wife signed up for the Chisago Lakes Half Ironman distance triathlon that was last weekend. This entails a 1.2 mile swim, a 56 mile bike ride, and a 13.1 mile run. They sometimes call this a 70.3, which are all the distances added together. After months of training and preparation to endure such an … Continue reading The True Goal
Prodigy Myth
The movie Searching For Bobby Fischer makes it look like Josh Waitzkin look like his chess skills came out of nowhere. The movie has a few scenes of his mother and him walking through Washington Square a few times, a rainy scene in which he finds a knight piece on the ground and decides to … Continue reading Prodigy Myth
Relentless Forward Progress
I'm at the 10 mile mark of a half-marathon. "Keep going," I tell myself. "Relentless. Forward. Progress." This is a mantra in the running world, but so applicable to life. Will there be a time when I've read and experimented enough with self improvement and growth? Not if I want to continue to improve and … Continue reading Relentless Forward Progress
Keeping an Open Mind
To keep an open mind was one of the many virtues that Antoninus passed down to his step-son, Marcus Aurelius. Keeping an open mind means that we are open to questions regarding our own ideas, actions, behavior, and beliefs. If we are confronted with evidence of a mistake we have made, we should not feel … Continue reading Keeping an Open Mind
Let A Few Things Go
Do you have a list of things that you're going to get to some day. Maybe when you turn 30, 40, 50, etc? Perhaps you'll get to it when you retire, or when the kids are older or out of the house? Are you accumulating things that are not getting used which have the same … Continue reading Let A Few Things Go
