It seems like most distance runners are neurotic...
It seems like most distance runners are neurotic...
Do you mean REAL distance runners like top ultramarathoners (Antone Krupicka, Hal, etc.) or fake "distance" runners like the poseurs on this site?
Or at least most distance runners exhibit some neurotic behavior...
"Ultra" and "runner" is an oxymoron.
yes
Oh gawd yes.
Actually, no. Take me, for example.
What are you looking at!! Stop reading this!!
The moon is purple!
Define "Neurotic."
--Do you mean pop psychologically, or psychologically?
The fact of the matter is that everyone is neurotic somewhere in their lives.
The question is whether their neurosis is extreme enough in what ever area it shows up in their lives, to have life damaging consequences.
A very good case, has, and can be made that 90% of American citizens are neurotic.
Unless you studied psychology...many branches of it, and neuroscience... It is unlikely that you can have a clear picture of yourself, and how you work, and what percentage of how you work is determined by your species (human), your genes, your imprints from family, local society, macroscopic society, personal history, and more.
Most people are on automatic. Most people understand more about, say, the "animal instinct" of their pets, than they do how "human instinct" influences their own behavior.
deen wrote:
Do you mean REAL distance runners like top ultramarathoners (Antone Krupicka, Hal, etc.) or fake "distance" runners like the poseurs on this site?
Ultra marathoners are just slow runners who could not compete in the marathon and had to go where there is no compition. Anyone who "runs" 100 miles is not a runner you're a jogger who has accepeted you can not beat anyone at the marathon which is already a borderline psycotic event.
No they are to neurotic. They just tend to overintellualize obsessively, parse words, as their main intrapyschic defense.
Or not.
(It is what it is)
uote]derrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr? wrote:
Define "Neurotic."
--Do you mean pop psychologically, or psychologically?
The fact of the matter is that everyone is neurotic somewhere in their lives.
The question is whether their neurosis is extreme enough in what ever area it shows up in their lives, to have life damaging consequences.
A very good case, has, and can be made that 90% of American citizens are neurotic.
Unless you studied psychology...many branches of it, and neuroscience... It is unlikely that you can have a clear picture of yourself, and how you work, and what percentage of how you work is determined by your species (human), your genes, your imprints from family, local society, macroscopic society, personal history, and more.
Most people are on automatic. Most people understand more about, say, the "animal instinct" of their pets, than they do how "human instinct" influences their own behavior.[/quote]