Tag: resilience
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With It or On It
As I jumped (or more like flopped) over yet another muddy wall, hand aching, knees throbbing, and my entire body trembling from the freezing rain, I contemplated the psychology behind the wild success of the Spartan Race. The amount of money people will pay to torture themselves, just to be able to say they could…
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Life is not a masquerade
First, a word of warning — this is going to be long. Three Miles I listened to this powerful story on This American Life today about three students from a poor school district in South Bronx, whose lives were forever changed by a visit to a neighboring private school three miles away. I don’t want to give…