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The four-minute mile was a wall until it wasn't

Before 1954 the four-minute mile was considered beyond human. Then Bannister ran it — and within eighteen months, others followed.

Before 1954, running a mile under four minutes was considered beyond human. Doctors said the heart could not take it.

Then Roger Bannister did it — through pacing, preparation, and a decision made long before the starting gun.

Here is the part people forget: within eighteen months, others followed. The wall had never been in the track. It was in everybody’s head.

My own stepbrother won Olympic gold in 1984, and I watched the same thing up close — the body arrives where the mind has already been. Every time.

So the question worth asking is not whether you are capable. It is which wall you have accepted without ever testing it.

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