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What if Work Doesn't Work

19 Apr 2021 · 1 min

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John Kenny reflects on losing his identity when he stopped running, the sport that had fed his ego for years. He spent roughly 15 years feeling lost and reverting to childlike uncertainty, then leaned on relationships with women to feel worthy of anything.

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What was your relationship like before you stopped running? I was a bit lost actually when I stopped running, I think, because of that, because that was the thing that fed my ego. And then there was nothing. There was nothing there for me to tangibly hold on to that made me feel good about myself. And I would say for 15 years or so maybe after that, I was a bit lost. Or actually, probably felt a lot like I did when I was a kid. I went back into that kind of lost space. Didn't know what I was doing, didn't know who I was. Again, turned to— back to women, although they'd always been part of the kind of self-sustaining Uh, self-belief stuff anyway.