Comments on: Going for the gold: how to train like an Olympian http://michellerafter.com/2010/02/17/going-for-the-gold-how-to-train-like-an-olympian/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed Freelancing in the Digital Age Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:10:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: TracyK http://michellerafter.com/2010/02/17/going-for-the-gold-how-to-train-like-an-olympian/comment-page-1/#comment-8953 TracyK Sat, 20 Feb 2010 14:46:58 +0000 http://michellerafter.com/?p=4212#comment-8953 Great treatment of the pathway to excellence - I enjoyed it. The balance of inner work and outer work is an important one. Great treatment of the pathway to excellence – I enjoyed it. The balance of inner work and outer work is an important one.

]]> By: Michelle V. Rafter http://michellerafter.com/2010/02/17/going-for-the-gold-how-to-train-like-an-olympian/comment-page-1/#comment-8922 Michelle V. Rafter Fri, 19 Feb 2010 21:08:01 +0000 http://michellerafter.com/?p=4212#comment-8922 Robert: Thank you for the comment, your email, introducing yourself, and pointing that snippet from his obit out to me. Ah, to have the luxury to write but not publish. Hopefully he did a lot of it, and his family will share it all with the rest of us one day. Until then, I'm content to re-read <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/archive/1950/04/08/1950_04_08_028_TNY_CARDS_000223104" rel="nofollow">For Esme - With Love and Squalor</a>. Michelle Robert: Thank you for the comment, your email, introducing yourself, and pointing that snippet from his obit out to me. Ah, to have the luxury to write but not publish. Hopefully he did a lot of it, and his family will share it all with the rest of us one day. Until then, I’m content to re-read For Esme – With Love and Squalor.

Michelle

]]> By: Robert Earle Howells — Surefire Writing http://michellerafter.com/2010/02/17/going-for-the-gold-how-to-train-like-an-olympian/comment-page-1/#comment-8915 Robert Earle Howells — Surefire Writing Fri, 19 Feb 2010 19:18:38 +0000 http://michellerafter.com/?p=4212#comment-8915 Great stuff, Michelle. I especially appreciate and agree with your remark about karma. That awareness is catching on, and it may be the best side-effect of Web 2.0. Here's how I know we're NOT, as you say, J.D. Salinger. This from the NY Times obit you link to: “There is a marvelous peace in not publishing. It’s peaceful. Still. Publishing is a terrible invasion of my privacy. I like to write. I love to write. But I write just for myself and my own pleasure.” Great stuff, Michelle. I especially appreciate and agree with your remark about karma. That awareness is catching on, and it may be the best side-effect of Web 2.0.

Here’s how I know we’re NOT, as you say, J.D. Salinger. This from the NY Times obit you link to:

“There is a marvelous peace in not publishing. It’s peaceful. Still. Publishing is a terrible invasion of my privacy. I like to write. I love to write. But I write just for myself and my own pleasure.”

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