Just came across this & wanted to give an update:
2.5 years
800 runs
6,000 km
3 marathons
2:55 marathon
Going for championship marathon standard in October
Never stop folks, you can surprise yourself with where you’ll end up. I guess it really was the first of many.
that's neuron.
it doesn't know fear.
it doesn't know lack.
it just repeats what you tell it.
you tell it "i'm not enough" 500 times. the neuron fires. then fires again. then builds a superhighway for that belief.
you tell it "nothing ever works for me" every morning. the neuron doesn't argue. it just memorizes.
you tell it "i can't change" long enough, the neuron believes you. and then your reality matches.
that's neuroplasticity.
from a quantum perspective, your focused attention is what turns possibility into experience. the neuron is the bridge, but the bridge only appears when you choose a direction.
the good news? the same neuron doesn't know truth from a lie. it just repeats. so you can overwrite the lie with a new signal. when you hold that new signal with quiet certainty, reality reorganizes around it, without you forcing it.
what most people get wrong: they try to "think positive" once. then wonder why nothing changes.
one weak signal doesn't build a highway. repetition does. and without the inner "already done", the repetition stays hollow."
Probably one of my favourite interviews from the whole European Athletic Championships.
Charlotte Henrich had about 20 minutes notice that she was running the women’s 400m final last night.
She laid out all her emotions after and it’s impossible not to like her!
Confidence doesn't come from believing in yourself. It comes from having done the uncomfortable thing enough times that your nervous system stops flagging it as an emergency. Because nothing is actually hard, it's just unfamiliar.
Just off the top of my head it makes it more likely that cancer will kill me or a loved one because his wealth led directly to cancer research being cut
when God puts me in strange and terrifying situations, I see myself as a cat going to the vet. it’s good for me somehow, I say, or else someone who loves me wouldn’t have taken me there
the only difference bw you and the people being torn apart by the settler colonial death machine is sheer luck. there's nothing inherent to you that makes you more deserving of safety. it could just as easily have been you and that arbitrariness should haunt you, not comfort you.