Sprint the first lap and you’ll spend the last three watching people pass you.
STILLNESS
WHAT THIS MEANS
Pacing is just distributing a fixed budget. Enthusiasm in the first lap feels like strength and is actually borrowing, at a bad rate, from a version of you who has to run three more. The pass happens later and it feels personal, though nothing about it was about the other runners.
Start the term, the project, the season somewhere below your maximum on purpose. Leave yourself something in week seven when everything lands at once. Running the whole thing at eighty percent finishes ahead of sprinting the opening and walking the rest.
A QUESTION TO SIT WITH
Where did starting too fast cost you the finish?
MORE IN PATIENCE & TIMING
- Teaching your little brother to ride a bike is a crash course in patience. Mostly his crashes, some of yours.
- Some friendships are for a season. Holding on in winter to a summer friend just makes you both cold.
- More plants die from too much watering than from too little. Sometimes care means backing off.
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