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I have had many people ask me why I train so hard, diet, endure the pain of injuries, etc. for this sport. I guess all of you have had the same question asked many times. I found this quote by the American philosopher William James, one of the founders of psychology and the philosophy of Pragmatism:
"Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day. That is, be systematically ascetic or heroic in little unnecessary points, do every day or two something for no other reason than that you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test. So with the man who has daily inured himself to habits of concentrated attention, energetic volition, and self-denial in unnecessary things. He will stand like a tower when everything rocks around him, and when his softer fellow-mortals are winnowed like chaff in the blast."
I think this discipline is about the inner warrior in all of us that needs an outlet; otherwise we could not conform to the softer civilization in which we find ourselves.
Something to think about,
Cheers,
Dr. Glock
"Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day. That is, be systematically ascetic or heroic in little unnecessary points, do every day or two something for no other reason than that you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test. So with the man who has daily inured himself to habits of concentrated attention, energetic volition, and self-denial in unnecessary things. He will stand like a tower when everything rocks around him, and when his softer fellow-mortals are winnowed like chaff in the blast."
I think this discipline is about the inner warrior in all of us that needs an outlet; otherwise we could not conform to the softer civilization in which we find ourselves.
Something to think about,
Cheers,
Dr. Glock
