CHAPTER 12
Recover Before It’s Too Late
Dogs do speak, but only to those who know how to listen.
—ORHAN PAMUK
This entire section could just be this simple six-word sentence: Sled dogs pause before they’re tired. If you take away one thing, let it be that simple fact. But as we’ll come to find out, they don’t pause themselves. They can’t. It’s not in their nature, so it has to be done for them. That’s what we need to do for our physical selves.
Within each of us is a dog that wants to do everything, be everywhere, and work without ceasing. To master ourselves, we have to pause before we’re really tired. The resilience pause is about recovery. And recovery should not be like Brigadoon (a mythical Scottish village that appears for one day every ...
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