Combining Talent with Heart and Desire

This morning, I popped up my inbox to see an email from "The Science of Sports". In the email, they discussed how scientists were trying to analyze Usain Bolt's World Record 100 meter run and use that information to predict how fast a human could potentially run. I seem to recall a similar type of effort to analyze Haile Gebrselassie's marathon effort last fall.

All of these efforts by scientists remind me of a story that I once heard about a politician. Around the 1900, this politician suggested that the US Patient office should be abolished because in this politician's opinion everything that could be invented had already been invented.

Just imagine, here we are some 100+ years later and all of the advances that have been made.

Setting down and trying to predict the limits to human beings seems like a pointless effort to me.

When an athlete comes along that combines talent, heart, and desire, they do phenomenal things in their chosen craft. Usain Bolt is one of these athletes. Others that come to mind are Lance Armstrong and Michael Phelps.

And, our job should be to marvel and enjoy watching their accomplishments.