A short YouTube conversation (Mark Evans DM) about perseverance and taking life/business "one step at a time." Speakers use running and race experiences—including a painful 71-mile race that one speaker quit and subsequent training for a 100-mile race—as metaphors for persistence, reframing setbacks as fuel rather than excuses.
Not always going to accomplish the goal, but, you know Shoe Dog, right? You've read that book?
Oh, yeah. Great. Yeah, it's a great one.
The thing is, is, like, it's just one step at a time. One step at a time. How many times a day do you want to quit running? Business, life, just in general, everything. Right? There's a lot of problems going on, a lot of things moving. Sometimes you just want to quit, but, like, dude, just keep the feet moving.
That 71 mile was five weeks ago, and it's the first race I've ever quit. But I literally couldn't put any more pressure on my foot. I couldn't walk anymore and ruptured some tendons in my foot. But it's still in my head because that's how I am, right? It's. I've never quit anything in my life, and it's the first thing I've ever quit. So it's so stuck in my head. I'm so obsessed with it that I've already started training for my next hundred miler.
But you're using it as fuel. A lot of people use it as an excuse.
