Endure and stand by your dreams

Updated on: Monday, January 11, 2010

“There are no short cuts to achieve the most important things in life. We must have endurance or exceptional endurance to stand by our dreams,” ultra-marathon runner Brigid Wefelnberg said at the Global Development Programme organised by PROTON business school in Indore recently.

Ms. Wefelnberg, who has participated in marathons and endurance walks across the world from the Atacama desert to the Great Wall of China, advised students to keep asking themselves what their goals were instead of wasting time in “cafes and restaurants.”

The “extreme athlete” likened intermediate goals in life to checkpoints in marathons and said that boredom was the “only sin in life that cannot be pardoned,” asking students to take up adventures continually in life.

She also led corporate members and students on a 5-km-endurance walk.

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