, and trains it: a trajectory that is drawn from the ancient world, when the sweat of the athletes was preserved in ampoules, as it is indeed sacred, to the similar sacred dimension that today is attributed to physical activity, understood as an identity discipline, in the sense of regular activity that precisely in its regularity helps us to understand who we are, with a daily exercise to fortify our excess as much as to refine our most intimate feeling. So in the stunning quote of Aristotle who acts as an epigraph to one of the chapters: “we are what we do repeatedly, and excellence is therefore not an act, but a habit”.
As more frequently enough happens in non-fiction that wants to popularize in an attractive way, the author mixes historical reconstruction with personal, autobiographical episodes, remnants of a life lived. The effect is a watering down of a story that would be stringent in itself, given the content.The relationship with the physique is also a relationship with its struggling while moving and trains it: a trajectory that is drawn from the ancient world, when the sweat of the athletes was preserved in ampoules, because it is sacred, to the similar sacred dimension that today is attributed to physical activity, understood as an identity discipline, in the sense of regular activity that precisely in its regularity helps us to understand who we are, with a daily exercise to fortify our excess as much as to refine our most intimate feeling. So in the beautiful quote of Aristotle who acts as an epigraph to one of the chapters: “We are what we do repeatedly, and excellence is thus not an act, but a habit”.
As more often happens in non-fiction that wants to popularize in an attractive way,the author mixes historical reconstruction with personal,autobiographical episodes,remnants of a life lived. The effect is a watering down of a story that would be stringent in itself, given the content.
