What I learned while reading “What I Talk About When I Talk About Running”

Murakami was a bar owner, and an avid baseball fan. One fine day while watching the match Murakami realised he wants to be an author.

Moment of leisure is required. You might be surprised to know a lot of great thinkers had walking as a daily routine. Our brain primarily operates in two modes. Diffused and focus modes. Problem solving requires both. A lot of time you will hear yourself saying, “I got the solution when I woke up” or “I reached to a solution when I was driving” that is diffused mode in action.

Go for that walk in the park.Who knows where you land, next Murakami?

Lot of people advised Murakami to keep running the bar on the side lines, after all he had been running it for a decade and writing for 0 days

Full commitment. Reminds me of the story where the general burns the boat. There was only one way out, through.

Murakami gets up at 5 sleep at 10, he has morning routines as well as night routines. Even at cost of maintaining relationship with people he keeps his routines.

Murakami has been religiously following the routine for running and writing for 24 years

Discipline is the key and Prioritise yourself. Motivation is fickle, if you are slave to it you are slave to procrastination.

With the fugu fish the tastiest part is the portion near the poison

Risk to reward ratio. You can’t keep doing the same thing and expect different results.

No matter how slow I might Run I wasn’t about to walk. That was the rule break one of my rules once and I am bound to break many more.

Tiny holes sink big ships. Streak is very important and it is very easy to fall back to old ways.