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>OBAMA SAYING: "…for a marathon not a sprint"
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>SEE
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>It's a marathon not a sprint.
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>Q
I’m guilty of using the popular saying with my team, whether it was launching a product, talking about careers, or just referring to life in general. Similar to most people that use the analogy, I only had a surface level understanding: two distances which vary in length, and the marathon takes significantly more time than a sprint.
Sure, the analogy makes sense — great things take years to build. But, I soon discovered it was a naive take on the term. Last year I realized the statement has far more significance than just time horizon. Unfortunately the only way to really understand the analogy, is to actually run a marathon.
I’m early in my marathon career, so I still think I will uncover further meaning, but here is what has resonated with me so far.
Marathons are $cking hard. Really $cking hard.
I used to think that comparing a race that takes a few hours to a startup wasn’t representative of how hard it is to get a company off the ground. My tune changed when I ran a marathon.
Not even counting the training that is required, the race is a mental rollercoaster that echoed how I felt when I tried to start a daunting project. You can feel unstoppable for miles, and then, out of blue your legs stop working. I’ve never felt so many highs and lows over a three hour time period. At points I was cruising, passing people and smiling, at other times I was ready to pull myself out of the race altogether.
https://samjura.medium.com/the-most-overused-saying-its-a-marathon-not-a-sprint-776a7103fe66
words and expressions that can't be used more than once are not words or expressions … therefore a re-occurence of a common saying is not necessarily significant