Your Career Isn’t a Marathon, It’s a Series of Sprints

Consistency is not enough and might keep you from leveling up

Niklas Göke
Nov 5 · 9 min read
Photo by Braden Collum on Unsplash

I hated sports in high school. The main reason was the Cooper test. It’s a standardized test of physical fitness devised by a man named Kenneth Cooper for the US military. The goal is to run as far as you can in 12 minutes.

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Thanks to Marta Brzosko, George J. Ziogas, Stephen Moore, and John Mashni

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