Recently, I started seeing a new physical trainer and the only reason for that is to mobilise my dodgy leg and my dodgy shoulder because he does the most amazing mobilisation work so I’m not actually physically training.
Come later on in the year I hope that that will come, and it will add into my return back to proper cycling once I’m over my HYPOT situation.
The chap I see is brilliant and a former professional athlete at a very high level but he’s still in his 30’s and massively full of the excitement of having his own business and running as fast as he can.
He does 12 hours a day every day but only 7 on a Saturday and then usually has a Sunday off.
His wife is coming into the business (she will be a trained PT as well) and their building through excitement and effort and energy.
I’m old and slow and considered and full of advice even though nobody wants to hear it and so that’s worse isn’t it? Or is that better, or is it different or is it the same?
I can’t quite figure it out.
I think, if you’re lucky, that amazing amount of energy and excitement is replaced by wisdom.
I can look at a complex implant case now and usually find the answer now in a very short period of time.
I can talk to a patient relatively quickly and get to the route of their problem and give them a solution.
And so, as I head now towards 60 instead of towards 50, I can work the same number of hours and see twice as many patients or I could see a quarter of the patients and work half the time.
Excitement and a boundless amount of energy (like my little sausage dog puppy) is fabulous and a wonderful thing to watch, I’m not sure it’s more valuable than wisdom though and I don’t think we should forget that.
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