While most people won’t experience this level of free fall, the descending steps that take you there are never too far away. The good news is that everyone has access to the same stopgaps. You lose your filter between the social media world and reality. You consciously choose negative allies, whose poor judgment and character break down your honesty and integrity. In this race to the bottom, you fight and conquer your own ingrained systems of resilience, patience, and goodness. I know I have and will continue to do so.īut, to aim for the opposite end of the spectrum - and a world apart from the pursuit of an Oarsman - requires you not only to give up, but to work hard at giving up.Įxpand blame and excuses. Whether a trajectory trends up or down, to encounter a stumble is nothing new. In the same way that I wonder what holds such a legacy in place, what about the opposite? What drives people - perhaps an entire community - to break small promises over and over again?
There’s a level of respect there and a level of perspective where you fit in the sport, and the history of the sport, and everything that’s happened before you, sort of being a part of that.” It’s how you treat your teammates and it’s how you treat your competition. It’s how you carry yourself outside the boat. “Being an Oarsman is bigger than just getting in a boat and rowing. It can be applied to any pursuit of better: Olympic Rowing Coach, fosters this spirit every day in the pursuit of being an Oarsman. My friend, Brian Volpenheim, two-time Olympic Champion and current U.S. Act every day on the small promises you make to yourself and the larger bodies in which you are a part. Instead, as they pursue the top, they are on a race to the bottom. Because they don’t get what it is to be an Olympian. Athletes who pursue a berth on an Olympic team through a process of self-focus and disregard for their families, teammates and the other Olympians who went before them. I’ve witnessed it more times than I wish.
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