Let me ask you something. What actually stops people playing on a hot day? Not talent. Not the draw. Discomfort — the small, stupid, entirely solvable kind. And that is why I want to talk about a pair of shorts, because the humble stuff is where the wins hide.
Head Power Performance Men's Tennis Shorts: athletic cut, made to move in, and built in a moisture-wicking fabric that carries the sweat off your skin and out to the air instead of leaving you to carry it around.
That is the whole specification, and I want you to notice something about that. It does one thing and it does it every single time. Imagine what your third set would look like.
Imagine if you did one thing that reliably.
The colourway is Purple and White, which is not a small detail either — purple was the colour nobody could afford for most of human history, and now it is on a pair of shorts you can lunge in. Progress is mostly this: the extraordinary becoming ordinary, and then somebody sprinting in it.
Which brings us to Gori. Up on the hill above the town stands Gori Fortress, and out beyond it is Uplistsikhe, an entire city cut by hand into the rock — rooms, halls, streets, carved out of solid stone by people with no machines and no guarantee they would live to see it finished.
That is the lesson, and I do not think it is a small one.
Gori also holds the Stalin Museum, his birth cottage and his armoured railway carriage, and I will simply tell you it is there; some history is looked at, not turned into a slogan.
"Progress is the extraordinary becoming ordinary, and then somebody sprinting in it."
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