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How to achieve greatness without making yourself crazy.
We came back from Houston and our vacation last weekend and, as a precaution, broke out the home Covid tests. None of us had symptoms but, hey, we’d been in Texas. Might as well test.
We were all positive.
We’ll test my daughter again this afternoon but she’ll likely miss tonight’s school dance. She’d been looking forward to it for a month. My twin boys and I will test in the morning but we may very well miss our first Little League game Saturday afternoon. I’m the team’s coach and the boys are our catcher and centerfielder.
Everyone’s bummed because everyone’s fine. I was a little sluggish Monday but, honestly, my fatigue might have been psychosomatic. My wife has a cough but, honestly, her hacking might be seasonal allergies. Our kids have no symptoms. And yet we’ve been housebound all week and may be all weekend.
I’ve been annoyed, and when I’ve been annoyed I’ve thought about Malcolm Gladwell. Specifically this interview on the Daily Stoic podcast. He and Ryan Holiday — the latter of whom, I should say, is a friend; I visited Ryan at his bookstore last week — he and Ryan talk about running and writing and storytelling and at the end talk about Covid. Gladwell’s point is that the response to Covid-19 is nothing less than mankind’s greatest…
