Recently, Blinkist introduced their First Original Audio Series titled “Two Minutes with Seth Godin” comprised of two weekly audio clips for the next 26 weeks.
This week, one audio addressed “Where to Put the Tired.” This topic discussed the difficulty of running a 26.2 mile marathon…if you have ever done one, it is clear you can’t finish a marathon without getting tired. To succeed, you must “find a place to put the tired.”
This audio resonated with Don Tomoff and I due to our past history of being competitive college distance runners and marathoners. The “tired” is unavoidable! We both credit our past sports experiences with contributing to our professional perseverance throughout our careers.
As Seth notes:
“The people who finish, they figured out how to do it. To be tired, and finish anyway. And that is the art of being persistently generous, of showing up again and again to do work that has exhausted other people.”
“The act of being a professional is not to do everything when and how we want to. The act of being a professional is to do it despite the fact that we are tired or afraid. We need to figure out where to put the tired.”
