So we may not have it in us to be the best there ever was, but we can be pretty damn good. Good enough to win a local race, good …
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Sports performance data is just showing us what we've done. Why can't it tell us more?
Yesterday I looked at the date of my last post here and cringed. It's been over three years. It's worse than looking at the scale on January 1st - and …
Then a thought occurred to Gladwell: what if the source of genius wasn’t starting really early in life, nor having a mythical, genetic natural talent gene? What if, he mused, …
Greatness as a reflection. We watch because we see a glimmer of ourselves, of our potential selves or the potential of our tribe. We see something when we watch sports.
I was listening to Terry Gross interview Jeff Daniels and his comments about acting made me stop running and replay them. He was talking about the style of great actors: …
When you're Victoria Azarenka, the best player on the planet, you can say things like this:
She’d said she needed a hitting partner; just show up, she said, hit for a few hours a day and I’d have the rest of the day to hang at …
I'm pretty sure it's a Law of the Universe that procrastination is caused by an irrational estimate of the size of the task you're avoiding. Getting my book out as …