"Confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be... while retaining faith that you will prevail in the end, regardless of the difficulties."
This came from Jim Collins' book Good to Great. It describes the duality of the situation Admiral Stockdale faced as a POW in Vietnam. On one hand POWs needed to have faith that they would be rescued one day while at the same time understand that it might take several terrible years for that to happen.
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Swim 2.4 miles / Bike 112 miles / Run 26.2 miles - All of it in under 17 hours!
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Marc B. Petrine, CPA
About Me
- Marc Petrine
- 40-something accountant who is taking to heart the advice to train as little as possible to get to the finish line. I'd like to change that.
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Marcisms
- The Maestro cares not if others appreciate his music, it is enough that he creates it.
- Most people have the will to win. I have the will to prepare to win.
- If you don't risk everything, you don't feel anything.
- If your claim to fame is that you are the best in your livingroom at something, you generally suck at it.
- Somebody just threw a "Stockdale Pardox" into my BHAG
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- Testing
- 52 degrees this morning...Brrrr
- 5 Days - 500 miles
- Friday - 70 miles
- Thursday - 100 miles
- Wednesday - 103 miles - CRASH!!!!!
- Tuesday 107 miles
- Happy Birthday
- Monday - 130 miles
- Something neat about the run...
- Perspective
- Couple of kid pics
- The Stockdale Paradox
- Don't lose focus...
- Swam
- Panic sets it....
- Ride & Swim
- 57 degrees
- 6 months!
- It rains in Phoenix?
- Swim Swim Swim
- Feeling better
- Exhaustion
- Rest day
- Slow progress
- A little history
- How this started....
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