Sprint vs. Marathon

Yesterday, I was thinking about how people train for a marathon. It seems pretty straightforward: you run a little more each day to build up stamina, you eat appropriate food to get more energy, and you get advice from other experienced people who have run marathons before. What you don’t do is sprint short distances, running as fast as you can before you tire out.

And yet…

We don’t train for the other marathons in our life. When it comes to starting a business, we get impatient about the res...