A Small Lift
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To cheer you up. I rediscovered this book in my bookmarks, One More Thing by BJ Novak. It's a collection of short stories, the first of which is "The Rematch", and this is the opener:
"In the aftermath of an athletic humiliation on an unprecedented scale -- a loss to a tortoise in a footrace so staggering that, his tormenters teased, it would not only live on in the record books, but would transcend sport itself, and be taught to children around the world in textbooks and bedtime stories for centuries; that hundreds of years from now, children who had never heard of a tortoise would learn that it was basically a fancy type of turtle from hearing about this very race -- the hare retreated, understandably, into a substantial period of depression and self doubt.
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After awhile, the hare realized what the simplest part of him had known from the beginning: he was going to have to rematch the tortoise.
Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace. – Mike Ditka
