So, I ended up watching this boxer, Joshua Wahab, the other week. Wasn’t really looking for boxing, just flipping channels, you know how it is late at night. Landed on some sports channel replay or something.
First thing I noticed, didn’t know the guy from Adam before this. He just looked… focused. Like he was really locked in on the job at hand. Wasn’t super flashy, not like some guys you see bouncing all over, showboating. Seemed more like a workman just getting down to it.
Watching Him Work
I watched for a few rounds. It got me thinking, honestly. You see these guys in the ring for maybe 30 minutes, an hour tops. But man, the amount of stuff that goes into just getting there. It’s kind of crazy.
- The training: Hours and hours, day in, day out. Stuff we never see.
- The diet: Probably eating boiled chicken and broccoli while the rest of us are having pizza.
- The mental game: Getting psyched up, dealing with pressure.
It reminded me of this gig I had a while back. From the outside, it looked like a straightforward project. Deliverable A, B, C. Simple, right? Hah. Inside, it was pure chaos. Different teams barely talking, management changing their minds every other day, tools that didn’t work right. Just a constant grind trying to make things happen behind the scenes while putting on a brave face for the client.
We pulled it off, mostly. But like watching this Wahab guy, nobody sees the messy part, the arguments, the late nights, the stuff that almost went wrong. They just see the final result.
Just Doing the Job
Anyway, back to the fight. He was just plugging away. Throwing punches, taking some back. Looked like hard graft. I didn’t even stick around to see the final decision, actually. Got tired, went to bed.
But it stuck with me a bit. Just the image of someone showing up and doing the work. Whether people are cheering or not, whether it’s glamorous or not. Sometimes you just gotta get in there and grind it out. That’s most jobs, isn’t it? Boxing, coding, building stuff, whatever. Lot of unseen effort.
Just some thoughts I had. Watching someone else work hard sometimes makes you think about your own stuff, I guess. Nothing earth-shattering, just an observation from flipping channels.
