Comments on: What A Puddle-Stomping “Punk” Can Teach You About Strength

By: Yusuf Clack

Yusuf Clack — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 23:28:38 +0000

Thanks Sean for your compliment and for sharing that. Sounds like your girls are real lucky. Your comment reminds me of a part in Randy Pausch’s book “The Last Lecture” where Randy was going to take his nephew on a trip. As Randy picked him up, the young boy was getting a lecture from his mom about not messing up Randy’s new car. Randy decided to poor a soda all over the floor after he heard the overly stern lecture. This was just to show the kid they were about to have a great time focused on people, not stuff. The kid ended up puking during the road trip. The earlier stunt of spilling the soda helped make the young kid not feel so bad about not being able to hold his puke until they pulled over. We want to respect our things but I agree with you, look at the big picture, the creation of memories, and “magic moments” as Tony Robbins calls ‘em.

By: Sean Marshall

Sean Marshall — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 21:23:14 +0000

Hey Yusuf,

Great article! I totally agree with you on how sterile and mundane we’ve made things. I tend to be a bit of a neat-freak myself but that doesn’t mean I don’t like getting dirty once in a while.

In fact, I have two little girls and I make it a point to go to the park or the beach as often as possible. That usually means playing in the sand or getting all dirty. Are we a mess when we get in the car? Yes. But who cares? The memories are far more worth it than keeping our car clean.

Thanks for the insight!

By: Yusuf Clack

Yusuf Clack — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 06:22:43 +0000

What a classic memory. Thanks for sharing. Sounds like you were pretty fortunate
to have an influence in your life like Coach Boyd.

By: naveed

naveed — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 05:05:42 +0000

High school – Outdoor Track in the Spring season with Coach Boyd. In CT, outdoor track often started when there was still snow on the ground and on the track. Temperatures were regularly below freezing.

Every day it made us all feel like we were cut out of wood – it made us feel like we were unstoppable. To the extent that my the time it got warm out, we missed the cold.

By: Asif

Asif — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 02:09:27 +0000

I need to print this out, post it on the wall, and get out there

By: Yusuf Clack

Yusuf Clack — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 23:54:35 +0000

@Abu Zayd – Great insights and congrats on the barrier you smashed. Many more to come…

By: Abu Zayd

Abu Zayd — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 17:41:58 +0000

It was a great morning and a memorable day in the way it felt like I broke some sort of barrier between me and feeling great and in harmony with the physical world.

Feeling strong is internal before it is external so I think that waking up in the morning to pray helped with being strong enough to show up for the training in these conditions. That’s the heart’s training;-)

I wish the experience was longer and I hope that we will have more rain and more wind in the coming months because these elements are natural and challenging and we don’t need to shower (JK for this last one).