About Speed

Sometimes going slow is the fastest way to do it. 

If you have ever gone for a run, you would have, perhaps, experienced this strange phenomenon. That at the peak of your tiredness, your actual stride and pace is a lot slower than what you feel. You feel a lot is happening but the truth is that there is actually a lull.

Great athletes realise this. Though they do not stop at this stage but they stop pushing themselves too hard and come to terms with the 'slow down'. They allow an easy rhythm to set in. And soon they get into what every sportsman knows as the 'zone' where a lightness and effortlessness sets in and the speed and performance actually gets lifted to levels not possible otherwise.

We are often told to push ourselves when we are stressed and tired. And we have taken this advice too seriously.

Therefore we are not athletes or performers. We are just dispensers of to do lists!