I met up for dinner with my good friend Lucy this past weekend. We were celebrating the completion of her first triathlon.
Lucy was running me through her training plan, and curiously quoted all her distances in miles.
I quizzed her as to why she was using imperial measurements. For context, we’re both Kiwis, so we’re used to the metric system.
She said, “It’s purely psychological. I can run farther when I think about the training being in miles. And when I eventually convert miles to kilometres, I end up completing a significant distance.”
I liked this approach. Sometimes the size of the challenge doesn’t change, but it’s the way we frame it that makes all the difference.