And what we consider to be the most successful route for us to take, actually isn’t. Because too often our view of success is about some external bullshit idea of achievement – an Olympic medal, the ideal husband, a good salary. And we have all these metrics that we try and reach. When really success isn’t something you measure, and life isn’t a race you can win.
The art of swimming -she supposed like any art- was about purity. The more focused you were on the activity, the less focused you were on everything else and became the thing you were doing.