The Self Discipline Equation

What happens if you try to sprint through a marathon?

“That’s easy, you get exhausted early and end up never finishing.” — You may have thought immediately.

If so, you would be correct to assume. If someone adopts this approach, they will undeniably get ahead in the first yards of the race, blowing past everyone else, however, the longer it goes on, the more miles start stacking up, the more this person will gas out, eventually, taking a detour to watch from the sidelines.

Even though I’ve never even considered running a marathon, trying to push and sprint through things had always been my approach.

For most of my life, for whatever goal I had in mind, the strategy was always to put as much effort as possible in the shortest amount of time

I was trying to sprint to the end.

The big problem that I failed to realize though, was that this race, the one I was burning myself out in the beginning to finish, was quite similar to a marathon, and as such, it required a sustainable pace over a long period of time.

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