"I think I've figured out how this works." - WALL-E
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26 Pushing too much too soon can really derail long-term progress, especially body strenght building ▸
I had injured my ACL, but I kept pushing to do X runs a week and then Y times strength sessions. I realised I really need to pace it, not push everything, otherwise when you look back six months down the line, you were probably better off if you had done fewer sessions than done a lot more sessions and got injured and took that time off.
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1 Yuval Noah Harari in 21 Lessons for the 21st Century - Had to share these two quotes he said when he talks about Religion, Nationalism, Social constructs..in its chapter Meaning. ▸
“Most stories are held together by the weight of the roof rather than by the strength of the foundations.”
On Human’s obsession with suffering - “When you inflict suffering on yourself in the name of some story, it give you a choice: ‘Either the story is true, or I am a gullible fool.’ When you inflict suffering on others, you are also given a choice: ‘Either the story is true, or I am a cruel villain.’ And just as we don’t want to admit we are fools, we also don’t want to admit we are villains, so we prefer to believe that the story is true.”
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10 Came across these words from the The Bed of Procrustes by Nassim Taleb. ▸
“They are born, then put in a box; they go home to live in a box; they study by ticking boxes; they go to what is called “work” in a box, where they sit in their cubicle box; they drive to the grocery store in a box to buy food in a box; they go to the gym in a box to sit in a box; they talk about thinking “outside the box”; and when they die they are put in a box. All boxes, Euclidian, geometrically smooth boxes.”
He adds to it -
“In nature we never repeat the same motion; in captivity ( office, gym, commute, sports), life is just repetitive stress injury. No randomness.”
Its an interesting perspective taken from a long distance.