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The More I Read, The More I Realize How Unread I am..

9 Authors – 11 Books – 12 world’s best sportsperson & 11 key takeaways parallel to our work...

My 2022 in books was focused on biographies…

& many of them were Sports Bios. While reading them and recently while going through my notes I realized the clear parallels we can pick up from them in our work streams.

I have not mentioned what work episodes/learnings they evoked for me; because every one will relate to a different incident, a different manager or colleague when reading about what these ultra-endurance athletes felt about in their own lives.

Why is this post here? Needless to mention most of the athletes I read about our Elite UltraRunners :)




















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