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We all know that in The Wizard of Oz, Dorothy’s house is swept away in a hurricane and she ends up in Oz, where she has to go on a long, mystical journey to finally get home again (“There’s no place like home”). Metaphorically, she has to find herself and her true spiritual center. Her journey back home—or back to that essential center place within—is the mythical journey that we all take in life, whether we’re aware of it or not. It’s about the quest for meaning, a sense of purpose, love, and connection. Life is about finding our way to this place and living it energetically on and off the courts, no matter what “storms” may happen. Joseph Campbell returned to this idea again and again and in the process inspired a number of artists.
The Mindful Athlete
George Mumford and Phil Jackson
Deep Work: Professional activities performed in a state of distraction-free concentration that push your cognitive capabilities to their limit. These efforts create new value, improve your skill, and are hard to replicate.
A suitably versatile definition that I like, borrowing from researcher Samuele Marcora, is that endurance is “the struggle to continue against a mounting desire to stop.”5 That’s actually Marcora’s description of “effort” rather than endurance (a distinction we’ll explore further in Chapter 4), but it captures both the physical and mental aspects of endurance. What’s crucial is the need to override what your instincts are telling you to do (slow down, back off, give up), and the sense of elapsed time. Taking a punch without flinching requires self-control, but endurance implies something more sustained: holding your finger in the flame long enough to feel the heat; filling the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds’ worth of distance run.
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