3 Life Lessons from Ethiopian Runners

Ethiopian runners are arguably the best in the world. But their methods for success hardly follow the strict adherence to sports science we religiously follow in the West.

The more creative approach to running seen among Ethiopians holds a number of life lessons we can all learn from and live by.

This video has been inspired by Michael Crawley's fantastic book "Out of Thin Air" - his account of living and running with elite runners in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia for 15 months.

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[khalfanalkaabi]

Hey Sam, you're channel is absolutely fantastic. I wish you with the best of luck with building this channel. I wouldn't be surprised to find you with 1 million subscribers in a year or two

[callmemarvel]

Love these lessons - especially the one on rational optimism

[BrianDonato]

Appreciate the insights - Sports can lead to so many lessons. I tie in this in the last video on my channel too - Discussing how teamwork in sports can be translated to America right now. I hope we inspire people to use sports to facilitate life lessons. Keep up the meaningful content! Just subscribed to your channel

[markmcglincy]

All what you say is very true 👍 the book is a very good read to. Running is a very simple sport just made harder by the so-called experts 😀

[alemayehumammo]

I just finished writing a short read on the same topic but on a very different path. I wonder if we can talk...

[meklitbogale]

Lememed means practice by the way. Great video with wonderful insights. I’m am a runner always looking for videos like this to learn from.

Edit: you’re also not wrong. It could be translated as adaptation, I think.

[johnyon]

In the running you can learn many things Ethiopia even win tokoyo 2020 men's 10000 m run

[derejenegewo]

Altitude never never help Ethiopians. Colombia Lapaz is 7000 meter above sea level more than double of beautiful Addis Ababa. But have we ever heard a Columbian gold winner, equally Equadors Quito or a Swiss Alps gold winner which are significantly higher in Altitude than Addis Ababa. Poverty was not a reason for Ethiopians' to win either. Have we heard of a Yemeni or Dijiboutian or native Somali Gold winner? The reason Ethiopians are winners are, they are the only country in Africa never colonized and mindfully free of jealousy or unfriendliness of those colonized African capitals.Importantly the training in Addis Ababa is not easy, regimental and disciplined( not for the faint hearted ) ! Ethiopia for your interest is one of the most unique nations in the planet. In Africa it is the only country that have its own unique language and lettering.

[SamMartinPeakPerformance]

What else do you think we can learn from Ethiopian runners??