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I get better at pretty much everything I do, every year I grow older. Except maybe working out. I'm sure that will stop some day, but it sure as shit isn't 30.
by koromak 4y ago
I get better at pretty much everything I do, every year I grow older. Except maybe working out. I'm sure that will stop some day, but it sure as shit isn't 30.
- jl2718 4y agoI did a lot of running races in Afghanistan with mostly very young troops. It was such a thrill beating them because it was so obvious that they were physically superior to me, just as my younger self was. But I could defeat them mentally, let them lead and then crush their spirits by gaining pace when they hit the pain and boredom and self-doubt of the middle. I knew they’d give up if they turned the corner and I had already turned the next. There’s no way I’d beat them in the height of spirits at the end if I didn’t crush them in the middle. I’m not sure there’s a direct analogy to SWE. Maybe acceptance of the necessity to do something the simple hard way rather than the complicated easy way.