He succinctly wrapped up his vision for life, and for competition, by stating (after both wins) that you should never “accept that your best moments are behind you.”
Of course it is a valuable lesson. While we can learn from the past, we can’t change it, but whether you have one day left to live or thousands, you have some ability to shape what’s to come.
But there’s a corollary to that lesson, one that took me a long time to learn:
Don’t accept that your best moments are far in front of you.
It’s not quite “carpe diem” or “don’t put off until tomorrow what you can accomplish today,” but it’s not far from those. Note, I’m not telling you to leave your family to head off and raise albino salamanders or stop paying your mortgage to go on tour with the world’s first 17-piece bluegrass reggae band – unless those things are your jam, and you can somehow make it work responsibly.
Read the rest at Yamamoto Inside Line by Pete Robbins
http://www.insideline.net/peteweighsin/ ... y-sandwich
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