The best performers and athletes in the world know something the rest of us don’t: Failure is not the enemy. Failure is fabulous. Failure —non-fulfillment, defeat, collapse — is not only inevitable, but necessary to get what you want. To try to avoid failure is to eschew progress; it’s trying to stand still in a…
Read MoreParalympic Role Models
Images from Sochi’s Paralympics obliterate the usual meanings of “disabled” and send a big message about defying the limiting view, whatever it is.
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(Video link HERE.) We’ve been riveted by the Olympics on Sochi which we’ve been watching on TV. What interests us most is the fierce spirit we see: contenders making unexpected mistakes, falling, going off-track and off-plan, and most often CONTINUEING their run anyway, valiently with no possibility of winning. There are many victories we didn’t…
Read Morepeople are awesome 2013
(Video link here.) We especially love the kid at 1:30 min. While we watch all these wildly ACTIVE people, we think of all the people doing awesome things unobserved. via Kottke Related posts: danny macaskill’s new video: what he thinks as he rides 94-year-old matilda klein’s gracefully defiant dance weekend fun: new danny macaskill…
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