Functional Path Training

Experience or Experiences

I saw this quote from Frank Dick today, very much in concert with what I have been saying in this blog over the past few months: “You can’t learn faster only by having access to your own experience and knowledge,” insists Dick. “It’s a no-brainer. You need access to the experience of everybody. But in our sport (Track & Field), everyone is brought up to be an individual, and fight with everyone else. In a team sport it’s not as difficult to get people to work together. That’s a cultural shift that has to take place in athletics.” Frank is the new Chairman of Scottish Athletics; he was the Chief Athletics Coach for England in their golden days in the 1980’s. He has always been an inspiration and a source knowledge and wisdom for me.

Good Quotes

The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.

  - Ralph W. Sockman

At the present rate of progress, it is almost impossible to imagine any technical feat that cannot be achieved - if it can be achieved at all - within the next few hundred years.

  - Arthur C. Clarke

Today's scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality.

  - Nikola Tesla

Changing

When you're through changing, you're through.
  - Bruce Barton

Tim Nokes Quote

"50% of what we know is wrong; the problem is that we do not know which 50% it is". Tim Nokes, South African sport scientist who has challenged many of the sacred cows of exercises physiology including Max VO₂.

Quotes

Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats. Howard Aiken   

"Failure sucks but instructs"

“Don't try to be the 'next'. Instead, try to be the other, the changer, the new.” Seth Godin

Quotes

I found these quotes http://www.personal.dundee.ac.uk/~kbaar/DrKeithbaar.html

"An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made in a very narrow field." (Niels Bohr)

"There are two possible outcomes to an experiment: if the result confirms the hypothesis, then you've made a measurement. If the result is contrary to the hypothesis, then you've made a discovery." (Enrico Fermi)

Dr. Seuss

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, And that enables you to laugh at life's realities. Dr. Seuss

Steve jobs Quote

We don’t get a chance to do that many things, and everyone should be really excellent. Because this is our life. Life is brief, and then you die, you know? And we’ve all chosen to do this with our lives. So it better be damn good. It better be worth it.

Great Quotes

“I’ve thrown for forty-five years on an average of 10,000 throws a year. That’s 450,000 throws and not one of those throws has ever been perfect. There was always something else I could have done to make the prior throw just a little bit better. I think if we attack life in that same manner we can do some wonderful things on this earth.” Al Oerter Four time Olympic Gold Medalist

“Leadership is the flower. Responsibility is the seed. If you don’t get responsibility planted early, leadership never flowers.” Author Unknown

The Challenge

Are you doing enough to get by or are you doing enough to get better?