Patience and Persistence: What I Learned from the 100 Meter Dash
I developed a passion for track and field when I was middle school and by the time I was a sophomore in high school my aspiration was to be a professional. I never fulfilled my dream of making it to the Olympics, but the years I spent training as a sprinter taught me some very valuable life lessons which I continue to apply to this day. There’s a lot of commitment, patience, and mental toughness which goes into being a sprinter. You spend hours practicing a race which only lasts a few seconds, so there is very little room for error and mistakes.
Many who watch the 100 meter dash think that it’s just a matter of running as fast as you can when the gun goes off, but the race actually isn’t about haste. The 100 meter dash is carefully broken down into different phases and to run your fastest time you have to patiently work on your technique for each phase of the race. The lesson which I learned from being a sprinter is that nothing in life can be rushed without careful planning, and that is even true for the fastest men and women in the world.
