Life’s work is to wake up, to let the things that enter into the circle wake you up rather than put you to sleep. The only way to do this is to open, be curious, and develop some sense of sympathy for everything that comes along, to get to know its nature and let it teach you what it will.
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Have We Reached the Athletic Limits of the Human Body?
By Bret Stetka — 2016
Record-breaking has slowed, but science could find new ways to make us keep getting stronger and faster.
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