A Side to Err
Add San Francisco, New York, D.C, Las Vegas and Shreveport to the cities I’ve run in over the last few months. Add it to a foot and a half of sidewalk 50 unprotected feet above the intersection of the 110 and 101 freeways, and holes on the back of my heels so big that my socks were healing into my skin and rain, and 2 in the morning and most of the neighborhood between downtown Los Angeles and Beverly Hills – Koreatown, Hancock Park, Los Feliz, the Hollywood Hills, the barrio, below Crenshaw and Venice.
It’s what people with energy do. Before you know it you’ve racked up a history that you never intended to make because every time you came to a choice between more effort and more of the same, you chose the former.
Ryan Holiday is the bestselling author of Trust Me, I’m Lying, The Obstacle Is The Way, Ego Is The Enemy, and other books about marketing, culture, and the human condition. His work has been translated into thirty languages and has appeared everywhere from the Columbia Journalism Review to Fast Company. His company, Brass Check, has advised companies such as Google, TASER, and Complex, as well as Grammy Award winning musicians and some of the biggest authors in the world. He lives in Austin, Texas.
Man, I aspire to be more like you! Sadly I lack the self discipline to make the right choice between effort and more of the same. That’s why I’m destined to comment on self-aggrandizing blog posts instead of writing in a blog of my own!
Just kiddin’. You’re deep and energy-filled, dude. Keep it up.
c’mon man, take a breather.
Cool example of accumulation of effort.
I have a friend who’s always down for any trip, anywhere, any time (relatively speaking… he does have a job). Five years ago we’d been to about all the same places, now, I wouldn’t be able to catch up if I wanted to.