“He (Ashton Eaton) loves the limelight when it means seeing his name on record boards,” Metcalf said. “But he doesn’t like to beat other people. As a high-school boys’ coach, you can kind of get in the grill a bit and pump them up, say ‘Let’s get this guy.’ But Ashton never worked that way.”
Metcalf told him to think of the decathlon as a competition against the self—a common enough approach, but one that continues to come in handy for Eaton, who, at this point, is often competing against his own records.”
–Mary Pilon: Can Ashton Easton Save Decathlon? (New Yorker)
When you truly don´t care about others and don´t enjoy winning other people than yourself, you have reached the highest level of mastery.
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