Roger Bannister died y'day. If you are a runner chances are very high that you'd have heard about him. If you have read some material on psychology of self-belief etc, you'd have heard him. He was the first man who ran a mile in under 4-mins, when it was thought it was not humanely possibly to do so. But Roger is not famous for that, many such records have been broken. But once Roger ran a mile within 4-mins there were so many people who started breaking sub 4-min record and now for the elite runners of the prestigious Boston marathon running a mile in about 5.5mins over 26.3 miles. As a long distance runner myself, he has been an inspiration to me (my best mile though is just under 10mins, about 2.5times more than Roger) and felt sad when I heard the news.
Seth Godin, as usual, has come-up with this thoughtful post:
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