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253. Nick Thompson: Can High Achievers Be Balanced?

For The Long Run: Exploring the Why Behind Running

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Is Running a Bad Idea?

The first time I really consciously thought about these questions, I thought of running as a negative. The problem wasn't that running took up too much of my life and distracted me from my studies and my social relationship. It was actually that like I wasn't really good. And so I had to leave the team. That may have been because there's something about D1 sports that requires obsession. Maybe it does take up more than 12 hours a week right? Or maybe I was just wrong.

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