The Necessary Sacrifices for Our Goals

To meet our goals, we need to learn to give up the unnecessary

Bryan Ye
Bryan Ye
Nov 8 · 5 min read

Haruki Murakami’s What I Talk About When I Talk About Running is — as its title suggests — a book about running. Except that it isn’t. It masquerades as a book about Murakami’s four-month preparation for the 2005 New York City Marathon but is secretly about sacrificing for a goal. It’s about…

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Bryan Ye

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Words @Atlassian. Based in Sydney. I have a lot of thoughts; here are the less crazy ones. bryanyewriter@gmail.com

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