This is a cool Bruce Lee story: Bruce had me up to three miles a day, really at a good pace. Wed run the three miles in twenty-one or twenty-two minutes. Just under eight minutes a mile. So this morning he said to me, Were going to go five miles. I said, Bruce, I cant go five. Im a helluva lot older than you are, and I cant do five. He said, When we get to three, well shift gears and its only two more and youll do it. I said Okay, hell, Ill go for it. So we get to three, we go into the fourth mile and Im okay for three or four minutes, and then I really begin to give out. Im tired, my hearts pounding, I cant go any more and so I say to him, Bruce if I run any more, -- and were still running -- if I run any more Im liable to have a heart attack and die. He said, Then die. It made me so mad that I went the full five miles. Afterward I went to the shower and then I wanted to talk to him about it. I said, Why did you say that? He said, Because you might as well be dead. Seriously, if you always put limits on what you can do, physical or anything else, itll spread over into the rest of your life. Itll spread into your work, into your morality, into your entire being. There are no limits. There are plateaus, but you must not stay there, you must go beyond them. If it kills you, it kills you. A man must constantly exceed his level.
Posted on: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 23:03:38 +0000
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