“You’ve got to be willing to try things and learn from them, whether you fail or succeed. Because all of us get stuck in our ways of thinking, and you’ll find yourself falling behind people who are more nimble, who are more willing to experiment, who are comfortable pushing boundaries. The amazing joy and torment about elite athletics is that today’s superamazing new technology is tomorrow’s baseline, and you just have to keep moving.”
—Mark McClusky ’94, April 8, 2016, “Faster, Higher, Stronger.”
McClusky is head of operations at WIRED and author of the best seller Faster, Higher, Stronger: How Sports Science Is Creating a New Generation of Superathletes—and What We Can Learn from Them. He also taught a two-week English course, “Storytelling in a Changing Media Landscape,” at Carleton this spring.