Staring into the abyss - by Eli Qian - Nonlinear
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Staring into the abyss train the heart Apr 12, 2023 3 2 Share Billy Schenck, Dark Walls , 2023 When I swam, my coach would write out the working set on a whiteboard. Some days the set was easy, most days it was hard. But every couple weeks, there would be a monster on the board. Something off-the-charts difficult, a set that made your chest tight and breathing shallow. You would look at the squiggles on the board and suddenly be overwhelmed with a sense of doom. You know in two hours, you’ll have swam what’s on the board, but you have no idea how. It appears impossible and unconquerable. For t
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