“Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.”
-Bruce Lee.
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(Not) running quote of the day
“Truth exists outside all molds, and awareness is never exclusive.”
-Bruce Lee
(Not) running quote of the day.
“There are no limits, only plateaus.”
-Bruce Lee
The lay athlete, brands, and the dilemma of ornamentation.
Whenever I cross a runner who’s decked out in brand names, their sunday trip to REI or Sports Authority billboarded on their bodies, I worry for their knees.
Brands have become a way of differentiating ourselves socially—of carving our identity as separate from the person next to us, and yet displaying that we share (at least) one common belief: consumerism. Continue reading The lay athlete, brands, and the dilemma of ornamentation.
On the topic of paradigm shifts
Transcending the paradigms under which the majority of us train, race, (and generally develop our athleticism) is the most effective way to generate results that wildly outmatch any of our previous expectations of our athletic potential.
Paradigms are our constructed realities: they are the rules by which we are governed. Our paradigms outline which questions are acceptable, and which ones are not. They tell us which sources of information are valid, and which are not, and how we should go about interpreting the information we collect.
Systems thinking scholars suggest that transcending a paradigm—creating a “paradigm shift”—is the most effective way to change the behavior of a system (such as the human body) because it challenges the most basic questions and assumptions on which it is predicated. Necessarily, a new way of viewing the world will lead to the use of new types of information, new strategies, and new outcomes of the behavior of the system, which could have not possibly been foreseen or predicted under the previous paradigm.
(Not) running quote of the day
“It’s not the daily increase, but the daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.”
-Bruce Lee
running in systems 