#1307 - From being in a hurry to being fast
I watched a match yesterday. Not a major one. One of those local matches with young kids. Quite entertaining and hard-fought, I must say.
Plenty of young will and energy on both sides.
So much running but also so many mistakes.
I don't know if it was due to the young age, but I felt everyone was in a hurry. There was a desire to be done with whatever they were trying to do as soon as possible.
They seem quick, indeed.
But in the end, they weren't.
We often confuse being in a hurry with being fast.
But it's not the same. In fact, sometimes, being in a hurry makes you go slower because you make more mistakes and become blind to the opportunities to move faster around you.
As you know, I have a deep passion for motorsport. It's always fascinating to observe the faster guys on a racetrack because they look so slow to the eye of the casual observer. But then you check the time, and they are way quicker than anyone else. While the guys doing a lot of fancy stuff - accelerating, braking, drifting - they look fast but are not. And I know because I’m usually one of them. The stopwatch never lies.
That's because quick drivers are never in a hurry. They know that being smooth and having rhythm is the key to beating the stopwatch.
So, to move faster sometimes, we may need to pause, breathe, slow down, find a smooth rhythm and then slowly and patiently increase its speed.