Climbers rest on the wall. Hanging there shaking out your arms is still climbing.
STILLNESS
WHAT THIS MEANS
Recovery inside an effort is not a break from the effort. Hanging there with burning forearms, shaking out one arm and then the other, is the reason you get to keep going. People who treat rest as cheating tend to fall off much earlier than people who build it into the climb.
Put pauses inside your hard things this week rather than only at the end. Ten minutes off in the middle of a long session, a real lunch during a double shift, one breath before you answer. Staying on the wall counts.
A QUESTION TO SIT WITH
Does resting midway still count as effort to you?
MORE IN PATIENCE & TIMING
- Popcorn tells you when it’s done: when the pops slow down. Most things give signals if you listen.
- Impatience wants the answer. Patience wants the right answer. Only one of those gets graded.
- Getting really good at something takes about three times longer than the internet says. Plan around the real number.
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