
Fortunately are different from talent, since they can be acquired and sharpened through training." focus-the ability to concentrate all your limited talents on whatever's critical at the moment.

Murakami is a remarkable man, whose signal characteristics in both running and writing are, as he puts it, talent, focus, and endurance: " is more of a prerequisite than a necessary quality. He publishes twelve books of fiction and one of non-fiction. He runs seven Boston Marathons and four New Yorks. He not only runs marathons on a regular basis, but also triathlons and ultra marathons. "Writing honestly about running and writing honestly about myself are nearly the same thing," he states. What I Talk About When I Talk About Running, a memoir by Haruki Murakami (Knopf): This plain-speaking, suggestive memoir by the prolific and internationally acclaimed novelist Murakami is part runner's diary, part writer's handbook, part spiritual meditation.
