These athletes haven’t just redefined the limits of human potential; they’ve redefined those limits by doing the opposite of what the experts say they should have done. It’s peculiar, all right. Their stratospheric success suggests that we may have completely misjudged the path toward stratospheric success. In fact, it suggests something far more radical: that if we really want to be our best, we don’t just have to rethink the path toward mastery; we need to reconsider the way we live our lives.
