Saturday 9/10/11
No post today. Rest day across the board.
Mindset - Choose the Wrench
I heard a story of a guy who lived near the ocean in northern Scotland. Year-round, the temperatures were in the 30’s, 40’s and 50’s. One summer day, the temperature hit an unusually high of 60. When he walked out of the house, he saw the beach was completely covered in people playing in the water and lying on the sand in their bathing suits. Where I’m from, a 60-degree day would be cause for pants and a sweatshirt, not sunbathing on the beach. Everything is relative. The human brain doesn’t process things in absolute terms. It processes events in relation to other events we’ve experienced. 60 degrees felt as warm as a blanket to the people in the Highlands because it was the warmest temperature they’d felt in a long time. To someone in Miami who is used to the 80’s and 90’s, that same 60 degree would have felt chilly. A temperature does not feel warm or cold on its own. It only feels warm or cold based on how it compares to the temperatures we’re used to. Most of life is the same. Rel...
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