{"id":73528,"date":"2020-11-09T07:24:55","date_gmt":"2020-11-09T06:24:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/runlovers.it\/2020\/what-are-the-problems-for\/"},"modified":"2022-11-15T15:53:32","modified_gmt":"2022-11-15T14:53:32","slug":"what-are-the-problems-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runlovers.it\/en\/2020\/what-are-the-problems-for\/","title":{"rendered":"What are the problems for"},"content":{"rendered":"

Imagine a great marathon runner who gets to the 40th mile and thinks, “Oh but I’m tired,” and stops running. Imagine one of the great women<\/a> who decided that they too had to run marathons, no matter how or when: imagine if they had convinced themselves that it was not worth it, that it was better to go on with their lives without so many hassles.<\/p>\n

In the last newsletter (by the way, you signed up right<\/a>?) Sandro<\/a> mentioned Renzo Rosso, the founder of Diesel. Red used to say, “Problems make me happy,” meaning that problems are challenges to be overcome, they are not just obstacles and above all they are not insurmountable limits <\/strong>. <\/p>\n

Personal evolution and individual improvement can be described by curves: you know a nice graph pointing upward? In the ordinates you put the things you do best and best and also your mood: the more obstacles you overcome, the more satisfaction you reap. If you looked with a microscope at that curve you would see that it is not continuous but is made up of steps: every time we improve in something we go up a step. Every time you learn how to do something you didn’t know how to do you go up one, every time you figure out how to do better something you already knew how to do you go up another.<\/p>\n

Life is made up of stairs, isn’t it? It is said like this. However, there is another way of understanding the issue that is worth keeping in mind:<\/p>\n

Never think “I can’t do it” but start thinking “I can’t do it yet”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Do you see how the perspective changes? From denial you move elegantly to possibility: okay, you can’t do it but maybe it’s because you haven’t tried yet, it’s not that you just can’t do it.<\/p>\n

You’ve never run and now you’re running: you’ve learned to do something you didn’t know you could do. Now you know how to do it.
\nYou have never made a good carbonara and now you know how to make it (although it will never be as good as Santopalato<\/a>‘s).<\/p>\n

There are so many things you didn’t know you knew or could do and now you know how to do. You can do them so naturally that you have forgotten how much it cost you to learn how to do them and how unnatural it was to succeed at all. You struggled.<\/p>\n

Come si allena la resistenza mentale?<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n