25 mars 2020

Triathlon and Coronavirus II


How bad we want it
Greta Thunberg is really touching at the point of how bad we want it.  More of one third of the population is confined.  How bad we want it to control the epidemic.
"Though it must be in a different way to how we have acted in this case, we can act fast and change our habits and treat a crisis like a crisis."

How bad we want it to win in triathlon.  How bad we want to control global warming.  Boris Johnson, Trump and our president denied the pandemic until lately, pressured by the virus’ consequences.  In our previous post we mentioned that Irvin Yalom learned empathy pressured by an angry father who confronted him when he was twelve.

The difference between the winner and the loser in triathlon has to do with the ability to learn because we want it bad.  How bad you want to learn in order to perform is the key.  Overcoming handicaps culturally, handicaps in the family and handicaps individually, regarding education is what somebody in the third world country needs to do.  Do not wait for the coronavirus to come or being confronted by life in a similar way; it is too late by then.  And sadly, even then, one’s chances of learning depend on how much one has already learned to grasp the situation.  Sometimes we are already dead before realizing that we lost a chance in life.

I had a patient who died from cancer, who used to say to his teenage son: “Do I have to die in order for you to understand life.”


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