Perhaps all our troubles - all the violence, obesity, illness, depression, and greed we can't overcome - began … - Christopher McDougall

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With a television series, there's a hard deadline, and so you have to write even when you're not writing well.

Christopher McDougall

Perhaps all our troubles - all the violence, obesity, illness, depression, and greed we can't overcome - began when we stopped living as Running People. Deny your nature, and it will erupt in some other, uglier way.

Running, People, Greed, Troubles, Illness

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If you don't have answers to your problems after a four-hour run, you ain't getting them.

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Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up, it knows it must outrun the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning in Africa, a lion wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the slowest gazelle, or it will starve. It doesn't matter whether you're the lion or a gazelle-when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.

Africa, Inspirational, Morning, Motivational, Outrun, Running

In 'Tarahumara' land, there was no crime, war or theft. There was no corruption, obesity, drug addiction, greed, wife-beating, child abuse, heart disease, high blood pressure, or carbon emissions. They didn't get diabetes, or depressed, or even old: 50-year-olds outran teenagers.

Addiction, Children, Depressed, Old, Teenager, War

That was the real secret of the Tarahumara: they'd never forgotten what it felt like to love running. They remembered that running was mankind's first fine art, our original act of inspired creation. Way before we were scratching pictures on caves or beating rhythms on hollow trees, we were perfecting the art of combining our breath and mind and muscles into fluid self-propulsion over wild terrain. And when our ancestors finally did make their first cave paintings, what were the first designs? A downward slash, lightning bolts through the bottom and middle-behold, the Running Man.

Art, Beating, Bottom, Inspired, Real, Running

The reason we race isn't so much to beat each other. . . but to be with each other.

Beat, Race, Reason, Running

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