Lessons Learned from running
Zenildo dos Santos
Athlete | Deputy Marketing Director | Avgeek | Views and opinions are my own
Like most people, I am not the same person I was 2 years ago Before Corona (BC). The last 24 months has been a wonderful learning journey, and through running I learned many essential life lessons, gained confidence to take anything head on and a sense of self that I didn’t know existed. There are many life lessons to learn from running. You get to work hard, enjoy some small successes, fall a few times, push through the physical pain, discomfort, and grow as human being.
You can learn a lot more from running, or at least be reminded about, as long as we are self-aware as they happen. Here my top 5 life lessons that running reminded me about:
Hard work, Works.
Training for a marathon is hard and if you want to finish the race every single minute spent training counts. Running a business or climbing the career ladder is no different, you will need to put in the extra hours go above and beyond and be willing to step outside your comfort zone to accomplish your goal.
The grass is always greener on the other side.
Eliud Kipchoge?is the only human alive who ran 42.2 kilometers in 1 hour and 59 minutes. To achieve this, you need to run each kilometer in 2 minutes and 50 seconds and maintain this pace for 119 minutes. All this to say that there is always going to be a stronger and faster athlete. You will be disappointed if you base your opinion about yourself on comparison to others. It should be you vs. a better version of you.
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It's all in your head.
If you think you can′t, you won′t. your mind is a supercomputer and you control the algorithms. A strong and resilient mind will endure the most painful and difficult moments of a race to get you through the finish line.
Things will get hard, don′t stop.
The world is moving faster now, we are less tolerant to disappointments, failure and when things get hard. Through running I learned that the reward comes when we keep moving even when we think it’s impossible.?
You have what it takes
With commitment, hard work, lots of training, and dedication to your goals, you might stun yourself with what you can achieve.?
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3 年ONEIL VENTURA and Zenildo dos Santos both, I wouldn't have said it better than you guys, truly two brilliant minds I have come accross in the last couple of years...so inspiring. Keep it up.
Director - Cloud and Application Security at GE Renewable Energy
3 年Well said Zenildo. The beauty about running is that is shows you exactly that you are your own enemy and hero at the same time and with each run you get to decide who wins the race. Either you let the enemy stop you or hero overcome him.