It is interesting to learn once more how much further one can go on one’s second wind. I think that it is an important lesson for everyone to learn for it should also be applied to one’s mental efforts. Most people go through life without discovering the existence of that whole field of endeavor which we describe as a second wind. Whether mentally or physically most people give up at the first appearance of exhaustion. Thus they never learn the glory and the exhilaration of genuine effort…

– Agnes Meyer

Agnes Meyer was Mrs. Graham’s mother. Mrs. Graham the former CEO of the Washington Post.

This was the valuable lesson Agnes instilled.

Oliver, Henry. Second Act: What Late Bloomers Can Tell You About Success and Reinventing Your Life. United Kingdom, John Murray Press, 2024. p.3

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Graham, Personal History, p. 40.