April 2008
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What story are you telling with your actions?
There are hundreds of places you can go to buy a quality pair of running shoes. But I’ll never go to most of them anymore, because I’d rather go back to Runner’s Alley.
I knew it was a running-only store, meaning the staff there would be more knowledgeable than the non-runner at the Foot Locker in the mall who sold me my pair of Nike Air Max Turbulence+ (which were serviceable,...
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“Man is eminently a storyteller. His search for a purpose, a cause, an ideal, a...”
– Eric Hoffer, from QuotationsBook
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Can you separate the story from the work?
Seth Godin, who knows a little something about storytelling, says no.
More specifically, he says:
The work is what people talk about, because it’s what we experience. In other words, the work tells a story.
But what if you haven’t figured out a story yet?
Then the work is random. Then the story is confused or bland or indifferent and it doesn’t spread.
On the other hand,...
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Today, Billy Goat Falls
I am a runner. But in an effort to run (well, specifically, race) faster, I’ve started cycling, based on the cross-training suggestions of the Furman Institute of Running & Scientific Training’s Run Less, Run Faster program (outlined in their book).
Since a) it’s been a miserable winter and b) I don’t own a bike, I’ve done my cycling on the stationary bike at the...