Tim this is awesome! Not the microwave on fire, but in retrospect, you captured this hilariously and the image is also iconic.
I just wrote about my word for the year, “win”
And keep thinking it was a stupid choice. After reading this you helped me make a small “click” in this all. I think I’m displeased because i haven’t defined WIN yet.
Your explanation of Barkley Marathon quote was a 💡 moment for me:
“True success is not the absence of failure. It is the refusal to surrender,”
I want to win because I don’t want to give up- I want to find. Way to make something work, even if it’s different than what I set out for it to be.
As you can tell I’m rambling real time thoughts here but THANKS for getting my wheels turning!
Absolutely my pleasure. My word for this year has been CLARITY. Which...I'll probably write on this...has led some to the word SURRENDER. I think I'm also searching for what "winning" looks like.
It feels contradictory and paradoxical to say this, but it's sort of a combination of accepting reality as it comes at you, surrendering to the lessons you need to learn, but not surrendering to the difficulties in the journey.
My wife immediately after this incident told me I had to write and share about it. I'm glad I did.
I appreciate your skilled use of storytelling to carry a message Tim. Chris Wong linked to a video in his last article that was an interview with Michael Caine. It follows this precise life lesson. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GAB89fOdA-I But your story is even better!
...dude that marathon is one of the wildest most amazing rereads, rewatches, rethinks...i wonder all the time how and why anyone becomes an ultramarathoner...what pains...but to take it all the way to barkley is such a wild wild wilder space and decision to me...it is one thing to be there forces against you, but to actively train for and seek out the hell that is...so incredible to see so many find their way there...choose their way there...perhaps your house is the barkley...and your dream can be to be one of the 17 finishers...so not why is it happening to you, or for you, but because you chose it...and like the barkley it is a one of a kind endurance only the best of the best of the best of the best can endure...what an athlete you might be...
Tim this is awesome! Not the microwave on fire, but in retrospect, you captured this hilariously and the image is also iconic.
I just wrote about my word for the year, “win”
And keep thinking it was a stupid choice. After reading this you helped me make a small “click” in this all. I think I’m displeased because i haven’t defined WIN yet.
Your explanation of Barkley Marathon quote was a 💡 moment for me:
“True success is not the absence of failure. It is the refusal to surrender,”
I want to win because I don’t want to give up- I want to find. Way to make something work, even if it’s different than what I set out for it to be.
As you can tell I’m rambling real time thoughts here but THANKS for getting my wheels turning!
Absolutely my pleasure. My word for this year has been CLARITY. Which...I'll probably write on this...has led some to the word SURRENDER. I think I'm also searching for what "winning" looks like.
It feels contradictory and paradoxical to say this, but it's sort of a combination of accepting reality as it comes at you, surrendering to the lessons you need to learn, but not surrendering to the difficulties in the journey.
My wife immediately after this incident told me I had to write and share about it. I'm glad I did.
I appreciate your skilled use of storytelling to carry a message Tim. Chris Wong linked to a video in his last article that was an interview with Michael Caine. It follows this precise life lesson. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GAB89fOdA-I But your story is even better!
Thank you for sharing that! What an inspiring message. Needed that!
...dude that marathon is one of the wildest most amazing rereads, rewatches, rethinks...i wonder all the time how and why anyone becomes an ultramarathoner...what pains...but to take it all the way to barkley is such a wild wild wilder space and decision to me...it is one thing to be there forces against you, but to actively train for and seek out the hell that is...so incredible to see so many find their way there...choose their way there...perhaps your house is the barkley...and your dream can be to be one of the 17 finishers...so not why is it happening to you, or for you, but because you chose it...and like the barkley it is a one of a kind endurance only the best of the best of the best of the best can endure...what an athlete you might be...