{"id":2604,"date":"2017-11-19T08:00:03","date_gmt":"2017-11-19T02:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/?p=2604"},"modified":"2018-01-17T16:29:54","modified_gmt":"2018-01-17T10:59:54","slug":"notes-from-reading-what-i-talk-about-when-i-talk-about-running-by-haruki-murakami","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/19\/notes-from-reading-what-i-talk-about-when-i-talk-about-running-by-haruki-murakami\/","title":{"rendered":"Notes from reading: What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0This book \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/0307389839\">What I Talk About When I Talk About Running<\/a>\u201d is collection of his daily entry of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.harukimurakami.com\/\">Haruki Murakami<\/a>\u00a0. He tries to connect his regular running habit and its learning to his way of life.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>He traveled all the way to Athens and on a humid day made run to Marathon village all by himself in heat and traffic. <\/strong>[super crazy :)]<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.in\/What-Talk-About-When-Running\/dp\/0099526158\/ref=as_li_ss_il?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1516186802&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=What+I+Talk+About+When+I+Talk+About+Running+by+Haruki+Murakami&amp;linkCode=li3&amp;tag=beingstoic-21&amp;linkId=873a080812a4cde3a9fee28f491257ef\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/ws-in.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?_encoding=UTF8&amp;ASIN=0099526158&amp;Format=_SL250_&amp;ID=AsinImage&amp;MarketPlace=IN&amp;ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;WS=1&amp;tag=beingstoic-21\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"https:\/\/ir-in.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=beingstoic-21&amp;l=li3&amp;o=31&amp;a=0099526158\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>These are some notes from the book:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. Say you\u2019re running and you start to think, Man this hurts, I can\u2019t take it anymore. The hurt part is an unavoidable reality, but whether or not you can stand any more is up to the runner himself.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To keep on going, you have to keep up the rhythm. This is the important thing for long-term projects. Once you set the pace, the rest will follow.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I just run. I run in a void. Or maybe I should put it the other way: I run in order to acquire a void.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Human beings\u2019 emotions are not strong or consistent enough to sustain a vacuum.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Growing older and slowing down are just part of the natural scenery.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You can\u2019t please everybody.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When you\u2019re young, you really need to prioritize in life, figuring out in what order you should divide up your time and energy. If you don\u2019t get that sort of system set by a certain age, you\u2019ll lack focus and your life will be out of balance.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I\u2019m no great runner, but I\u2019m definitely a strong runner. The more I ran, the more my physical potential was revealed.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Life just isn\u2019t fair, is how it used to strike me. Some people can work their butts off and never get what they\u2019re aiming for, while others can get it without any effort at all. But even in a situation that\u2019s unfair, I think it\u2019s possible to seek out a kind of fairness.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Human beings naturally continue doing things they like, and they don\u2019t continue what they don\u2019t like.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">No matter how strong a will a person has, no matter how much he may hate to lose, if it\u2019s an activity he doesn\u2019t really care for, he won\u2019t keep it up for long. Even if he did, it wouldn\u2019t be good for him.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I don\u2019t think we should judge the value of our lives by how efficient they are.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The body is an extremely practical system. You have to let it experience intermittent pain over time, and then the body will get the point. As a result, it will willingly accept (or maybe not) the increased amount of exercise it\u2019s made to do.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nobody\u2019s going to win all the time. On the highway of life you can\u2019t always be in the fast lane.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nothing in the real world is as beautiful as the illusions of a person about to lose consciousness.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The most important quality a novelist has to have is: talent, focus, endurance, patience .<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Most runners run not because they want to live longer, but because they want to live life to the fullest.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">People have certain inborn tendencies, and whether a person likes them or not, they\u2019re inescapable. Tendencies can be adjusted, to a degree, but their essence can never be changed.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As you age you learn even to be happy with what you have. That\u2019s one of the few good points of growing older.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If something\u2019s worth doing, it\u2019s worth giving it your best\u2014or in some cases beyond your best.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To deal with something unhealthy, a person needs to be as healthy as possible.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In most cases learning something essential in life requires physical pain.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If pain weren\u2019t involved, who in the world would ever go to the trouble of taking part in sports like the triathlon or the marathon, which demand such an investment of time and energy? It\u2019s precisely because of the pain, precisely because we want to overcome that pain, that we can get the feeling, through this process, of really being alive\u2014or at least a partial sense of it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0This book \u201cWhat I Talk About When I Talk About Running\u201d is collection of his daily entry of\u00a0Haruki Murakami\u00a0. He tries to connect his regular running habit and its learning to his way of life.\u00a0\u00a0 He traveled all the way to Athens and on a humid day made run to Marathon village all by himself &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/19\/notes-from-reading-what-i-talk-about-when-i-talk-about-running-by-haruki-murakami\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Notes from reading: What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[342,343],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2604"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2604"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2741,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2604\/revisions\/2741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}