5 Outsourcing Self-Worth
A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
—MARK TWAIN
In August 2017, Hillary Allen was close to finishing her PhD in neuroscience, and she was also ranked number one in the world in skyrunning, which is basically high alpine mountain running but with a focus on elevation gain and technicality. If trail running goes around the mountain, skyrunning goes up and down it. It’s the equivalent of running an ultramarathon up a mountain.
On summer break from teaching college science classes, Hillary had gone to Europe to race for three months. As she recounted on the Finding Mastery podcast, she was midway through the final race of the summer in Tromsø, Norway, in the Arctic Circle. Running across a ridge, ...
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