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In his book Man’s Search for Meaning, neurologist and Holocaust survivor Viktor Frankl famously described it this way: “Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.”15
The Mindful Athlete
George Mumford and Phil Jackson
The baby whale was swimming right beside me, so full of energy, speeding ahead, circling back, and bounding through the water with great exuberance. He turned and swam right under me, so close I could almost reach out and touch him. He seemed happy. He seemed to be playing and full of energy, but how long could that last? When had he last eaten? How long would his body fat sustain him? How often did he need to drink so he didn’t get dehydrated? What would we do if we couldn’t find his mother? I didn’t have any answers. But as long as we tried, as long as we kept looking, there was a chance we could find her. Sometimes it’s the process of doing that makes things clear. If we don’t start, we never know what could have been. Sometimes the answers we find while searching are better or more creative than anything we could ever have imagined before.
we walk over to the pull-up bar for what he has coined “nickels and dimes.” We do five pull-ups (nickels) and then ten push-ups (dimes) “every minute on the minute.” We start every time the second hand is on the 12. If we finish in forty seconds, we then have twenty seconds of rest. We do this for ten minutes (fifty pull-ups and a hundred push-ups). However, by the time we get to four minutes, I have to drop my pull-up count to three. I can’t keep up. I’m a runner, but this is a totally different skill set. I assume most forty-three-year-old men aren’t doing eight pull-ups, let alone fifty.
Living With a SEAL
Jesse Itzler
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