You will not have any reason to delay starting your hobby after reading this book…
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami
It may be seen as a book for runners or runner writers. However, at the same time, those seeking a life-time hobby that will change the habits, ways of increasing productivity should also read this book. Also, it was a conversation between the writer and me. By the way, Haruki Murakami is a very well-known author. With this book, he published a different format rather than his other novels.
Before starting to be an author, he had a jazz bar and left it and start to spend all his time on writing and also running which is the main topic of the book. Here is the taken notes from the book:
Running:
- Running without competing with others. Competed with only his previous successes.
- Increasing the goals: running, marathon, super marathon, triathlon… Learning swimming At the same continuously recording his moments with writing.
- Discipline…everyday running. Counting analyzing and reviewing the results… This can be implemented in any other activity. It is important for getting more professional.
- Practicing and talking to yourself what you want during the running…
- Recognizing improvement in your endurance level.
General lessons:
- For an amateur writer, the book is a good example to understand how to write part of your experiences in a way that the audience can imagine themselves in the story. Like the readers are running with you.
- One of the most famous wall-hung quotes in the gyms “No pain, no gain.”. It is really well-explained as a concept in this book.
- It is better to have a job that allows you where you want to work.
- Happy wife—>happy life 😂
