Ramit Sethi once announced a challenge on his blog. Either do a 5 minutes plank or do 1000 push-ups.
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But what kind of person can do a 5 minute plank without a break?
But then I just read this, and was blown out of my mind:
shethepeople.tv/news/four-hour…
What’s the world record for a plank? 4 hours.
Damn. Who could imagine?
Here is what I took away from that
I thought I can never run a half marathon.
When I ran 1 km for the first time, I felt like my chest will burst.
Then one day I was going for a run and our football captain Davis was also going out for a run by chance.
I still had to run because I didn’t want to admit that Davis could do something that I could not. If he can, I must be able to do it too!
Then one day some of the runners from our campus went running for 10 km. I went along. I managed to run that distance.
Turns out I just had to believe I can and try it out. And I did it when I had the company of people who believed they can do it too.
It was a self-imposed mental limit.
You can help others to remove their limits too. I was traveling with my colleague Mayur in November for about a week.
So in the morning, I told him that we will do a quick work out - just 100 burpees.
After doing 10, Mayur said he can’t go on. I would have none of it. I kept pushing him, encouraging him and didn’t allow him to sit down.
We managed to do 100 each. For the next few days, he told his friends and family that he did 100 burpees, and everyone found it unbelievable.
But that work-out set a new standard for Mayur in his life. Such experiences are transformative.
We take the same approach in our courses to teach practical aspects of the law.
All you need are other people who have done it to show you how to do it, how to train for it, and for you to believe that you must give this a try.
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