Growth - 成长

Always try to seek growth, not perfection.

From Priscilla Welch:
I don't know whether I've got my head in the sand or not. But I believe there's a lot you can get out of yourself at 45.
Gosh, if I've got to do this until I retire, it will be damned boring. There must be something else I can do with my life.
Running was making me a lot perkier, and a better person to live with. My exterior is a bit worn now, but the inside feels very young.

Priscilla Welch (born 1944) was a British marathon runner. She had a most unlikely career in international athletics, having been a smoker of a pack a day until she began running competitively at age 35. An officer in the British Army, Welch met her husband Dave while serving in Norway. She quit smoking, and under his tutelage, she ran in the 1980 London Marathon at age 35.
Four years later, she qualified for the British Olympic team at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. In the first women's Olympic marathon, Welch finished sixth, remarkable for someone who was nearly 40 years old. On her 40th birthday, Welsh qualified for the masters division and began setting age group world records.
In 1987, she won the New York Marathon with a 2:30:17. This was coupled with her second place finish in London where she set an age group world record running a 2:26:51, good for the sixth fastest time in the world for 1987. She was criticised for passing up the chance to win a medal at the World Championships in Rome that year. Welch set the age group world record in Boston by running a 2:30:48 in 1988. This record stood for 14 years.

The Jonah Complex: the evasion of growth, fear of one's own greatness, or evasion of one's destiny.

We fear our best as well as our worst.

Many of us evade our constitutionally suggested vocations--call, destiny, task in life, mission... We are just not strong enough to endure too much of peak experience. Our organisms are just too weak for any large doses of greatness.