Swim Faster Faster: Tip 60 The Rage to Master

I think I've already asked you
"How BAD do you want to be good?"

The other day I was watching a news show and they featured Marla
Olmstead, a 4 year old abstract painter. So far she's sold around
$300,000 worth of paintings and she has a 200 person waiting list to
buy her future paintings for over $10,000 a piece.
http://www.marlaolmstead.com/news08042004.html

The show featured a child psychologist who talked about
characteristics of child prodigies and one of the things she looks
for is a "RAGE TO MASTER." Rage to Master is a person's intense
desire to master what they are passionate about. I saw this
characteristic when I swam. Some of the people I trained with,
seemed to want greatness more than I did, they trained harder, some
swam way faster and a few went on to set national records, world
records, and represent the United States at the Olympics. Some of
these people, were incredibly talented with god given ability and
others were ordinary people with an incredible drive to become the
best.

Tiger Woods had talent and the rage to master golf.

Mozart had the rage to master music and composing.

Rick Carey had a rage to master the backstroke. His parents put him
in swimming so he would learn how to lose, he went on to set world
records and win Olympic gold medals at Los Angeles in in 1984.

How intense is your RAGE TO MASTER swimming?

If you want to become really great, your RAGE TO MASTER needs to burn
strong and long.

How bad do you want to be great and what are you doing about it?

An intense RAGE to Master
will help you swim Faster Faster.

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I appreciate all the comments and feedback y'all send me.
I love to hear from folks who've tried these tips.


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Happy Laps to you,

Ande Rasmussen
Austin, TX
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