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 Inspiration and Motivation

Jake Wells brought that up way back in some video or another, at least that's how I remember it.

I keep coming back to it.

What does sponsorship mean regarding that.

Some of the best pro's don't win but you know them well. 

How many races has Lachlan won? A lot for sure, but why are we drawn to that character of his? The winning side or the joy and engagement and for the inspiration and motivation he gives everyone?

In one Tweet Jake said "My hope is to inspire and motivate" 

In this film lach has a few passages that stuck, first:

It's always measures of success, right?

Your own measures of success, other people's measures of success, your sponsors. I'm always like evaluating what that means.

As hard as it was to give up personal ambitions for the race, that ultimately led to a much more successful week.

If we'd stayed focused on chasing results, we would have missed the point totally. 

How many miss the point totally?

And then this one, kind of unrelated but good and humble and words to guide one's life by:

You never think of yourself as an experienced rider because the years pass really quickly and youre like, oh wait i've been professional for like nearly 10 years.

I was always wary of people who would be always trying to give you advice because they are generally like people who are just trying to insert themself and make themself important.

SO I just try to lead by example, i guess.

And let me say this - when i've offered advice, my motivations are to help, not insert myself or for any self gain. I want to give you this to help you, unfortunately it is so rare, and for so long I was so bad at communicating this, and given it isn't normal, it is rarely well received. Hard to offer help.

So lately, a lot, i've held back. 

not easy for me, and people struggle, but the reality is lots of people really just don't want to listen or learn, there's youtube videos on how to everything now, surely that's enough to get help from a stranger in your phone. 

DAMNIT - i was all super inspired and positive until I hit that last bit... fucking hell...

Ah well. 

planning on trying to watch this soon might be too mt bikey for most but i'm looking forward to it

anyway

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