In my dental practice we have a CT scanner (this is crazy to think of were implant dentistry has come from in the past 10-15 years) Weekly that CT scanner has to be calibrated, to check that it works properly and we have a set of bench marks against which the calibrations applied.
If we change those bench marks, made them less prosiest or less onerous it would be easier to calibrate. Maybe we should calibrate it once a month, or maybe once a year, this would reduce down the time required to calibrate and in the end might save us money.
It might increase the risk to someone else but it would be cheaper for us. There is a lesson in this as to were you set your calibration markers for anything that you do.
I rode a bike ride recently in the Outlaw half triathlon as part of a team, I blogged about it here. I was terrible.
It was one of the slowest bikes I’ve ever done, and iv done that race a few times and the rest of the times I’ve been doing the full triathlon not just the bike myself. For the second half od the bike ride young alpha males on multiple thousand pound bikes would fly past me, every 10-15 seconds and I finished the ride and felt like c**p.
The problem was that I was calibrating the ride against the wrong calibration markers.
The week I did that bike ride it took me up to 225 miles for the week, which is the second biggest cycling week I have ever done in my life. The Friday before the Sunday of the race I cycled 100 miles with my friend Dominic O’Hooley, who is one of the best guys on a bike I’ve ever met. My bike was broken, there was a problem with the chain and through the whole race my bike sounded like a tractor, really hard to push. I was riding as part of a training program, not as part of a race itself were I would have had 10-14 days of rest prior to this with full preparation (I was on a night out with the football teams mums and dads, not drinking, but out the night before) So if I calibrate it against a different marker, saying against the abilities of my wife who cycles once a week with one of her friends for about 15 miles, then over 20mph for 56 miles is a pretty good effort.
This principle applies across the board. If you calibrate yourself against the family next door or someone that you work with, your not really playing a fair game for either of you. But the world that we live now is set up to encourage calibration at every stage. Particularly through any aspects of the media and social media that you look at. It brings this content and upset because in the end the race is long, and really it is only with yourself.
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