Whereas now, because I've done it before, it feels like something I ought to be able to do; there's not so much sense of achievement if I do manage it, and much more sense of failure if I don't.
That's it in a nutshell: the dilemma of getting good at something. Your previous achievements and experience give you expectations, and they cloud the fun of throwing yourself into something new. You need a way of metaphorically looking back at the distance you've travelled since you started running and thinking "Wow." If you can't do that, you need a way of metaphorically discarding the baggage you've accumulated so you can look at each day's achievements and say "Wow."
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Date: 2008-11-26 11:32 am (UTC)That's it in a nutshell: the dilemma of getting good at something.
Your previous achievements and experience give you expectations, and they cloud the fun of throwing yourself into something new. You need a way of metaphorically looking back at the distance you've travelled since you started running and thinking "Wow." If you can't do that, you need a way of metaphorically discarding the baggage you've accumulated so you can look at each day's achievements and say "Wow."
This concludes today's sermon by Cary Tennis.