CHAPTER 14
Outperforming Challenges
You can’t be brave if you’ve only had wonderful things happen to you.
—MARY TYLER MOORE
What’s the phrase from when we were kids? “Sticks and stones may break my bones, but names will never hurt me.” You remember that little sing-song rhyme we’d have to deploy against our bullies and their relentless name calling? For a million years, if our earliest ancestors of the Homo sapiens variety wanted to eat, then sticks and stones were all they had. That’s why they climbed down out of the trees and began to run.
That’s the theory at least, according to a groundbreaking study done by Dennis Bramble and Daniel Lieberman in Nature (2004) who write, “Everyone says humans are bad runners, because when you think of running ...
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