There's a quote by William James.

He says, most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.

Give your dreams all you've got and you'll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.

Now that's one of these ideas that in practice is a lot different than to understand.

It's like suffering is tough, but you need to suffer.

Okay, check.

Then you go out into the real world and it feels like the walls are collapsing around you and it's

very easy to retreat from that understanding, right, to do what instincts tell you to do,

emotions tell you to do versus what's best for you in the long term, right? Because it's tough

to get past the emotive state and understand that there's more on the other side.

I think that's a very important and substantial part of life.

And one of the reasons running has been such an important part of my life,

one of the reasons a lot of the people that

watch this run is because there's a lot of difficulty associated with it. That if you can hang in there

long enough and you can get past that, there's a bliss and a joy that you couldn't have otherwise gotten.

It's not obtainable without immersing yourself, you know, in the treacherous landscape first.

That's the ticket, the cost of admission.

And it would remind me daily.

It would be sort of a parallel to

everything else in my life right it's like just like in running dot dot dot dot

because it was a it was like a microcosm of real life you know it's it's it's a

discomfort that last 30 minutes as opposed to the five years of getting

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