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✨ Homo Finisher Book Review 🏁

When running teaches us to be "human beings doing it to the end."

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New Year's like this, many people should be setting big goals, exciting New Year Resolution, but we often don't reach the stars because we are defeated by "fatigue" on the way.

This book is not just a book telling the story of Elder Eh's marathon, it interpolates the key ideas and skills of life, inviting you to evolve yourself into a new species called "Homo Finisher," or the Man Who Made (Everything) to the End.

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This is a summary of the lessons of this book, from my point of view, who started the marathon from this book and trailed the Osaka Marathon.

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1. Meaningful torture

In this book, Elder Eh writes about facing pain in the 30-35 kilometers, which is where the body tells me to stop, but the heart tells me to keep going, which is where we can finish.

Marathon suffering is a great lesson in learning ourselves. When we get through the cold and the pain to the finish line, our brains record:

"We can bear more than we think."

It's like a difficult job or project...

At a ton or want to quit, remember the feeling of the 35th kilometer that success is always on the other side of wanting to quit.

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2. Concentrate on movement

The marathon is not just the use of legs, it is the use of concentration on the "present." Elder Eh describes cutting off from the outside world and then leaving with just breath and moving on.

Even though there are a lot of people around, the sound is stagnant, but inside we have to be still.

When I ran in Osaka, I targeted Sub-4 (finish in 4 hours), and I needed precise planning and consciousness control not to get out of the cold or tired.

To be honest, that day was a very difficult day for me.

Once I got through, I felt like I took a step further.

Working life in a very disturbing era, training as a Homo Finisher is focusing on the job one step at a time until the end of the job, which is an important skill to succeed in anything.

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3. Discipline is "freedom," not "detention."

Many people view waking up to practice at 4 am as suffering (I also 😆), but the book says, "Discipline is what allows us to go where undisciplined people never go."

The fact that you touched the finish line in Osaka was not only the result of the day you ran, but the result of every day you went out to practice on a day you didn't want to run.

Sustainable success is no shortcut. It is the accumulation of miles.

In your working life, on a lazy day, tell yourself that this is a rehearsal to reach the "finish line" of the New Year's goal.

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This new year, let's aim for Homo Finisher.

No need to start at Marathon, just start a planned 15-minute 'walk' or 'run' a day...Change from focusing on results (i.e., to being thin) to focusing on actions (i.e. to be done to the end)

Because life is like a marathon. It doesn't measure who starts the fastest, but it measures who doesn't stop until the finish line.

When you finish the marathon (or finish your set goal), you become a new, self-confident person...

I proved it in Osaka.

And I want you to experience it in 2026. 😁✨

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... Read moreขอเสริมจากประสบการณ์จริงที่ได้เส้นทาง Homo Finisher ผ่านการวิ่งมาราธอนที่โอซาก้า มันชัดเจนว่าสิ่งที่หนังสือเล่มนี้สอนมากกว่าการวิ่ง คือการเข้าใจตัวเองในช่วงเวลาที่เจอความท้าทายที่สุด ไม่ว่าคุณจะเป็นนักวิ่งมือใหม่หรือกำลังเผชิญกับงานที่ยากลำบาก การฝึกตนเองให้เป็น "Homo Finisher" นั้นคือการฝึกให้ใจแข็งแรง วิ่งจนถึงเส้นชัยไม่ยอมถอยหลัง แม้ว่าร่างกายจะบอกให้หยุดก็ตาม สิ่งหนึ่งที่ผมเรียนรู้คือ "ความทรมานที่มีความหมาย" คือโอกาสที่ทำให้เรารู้ว่าเราทนได้มากกว่าที่คิดจริงๆ และเมื่อถึงจุดที่อยากเลิก สิ่งที่ต้องทำคือดึงสมาธิจับอยู่กับก้าวเล็กๆ ต่อไปเรื่อยๆ เพราะโฟกัสกับขั้นตอนที่ทำให้ถึงเป้าหมายจะช่วยให้ฝ่าฟันช่วงเวลายากๆ ไปได้ นอกจากนี้ การสร้างวินัยให้ตัวเองเหมือนกับการให้เสรีภาพอย่างแท้จริง เพราะวินัยจะเป็นแรงผลักให้คุณก้าวหน้าอย่างมั่นคง เมื่อวินัยเข้มแข็ง การวิ่งที่ตอนแรกดูเหมือนเป็นภาระก็กลายเป็นความสุข และความสำเร็จระยะยาวจะเกิดขึ้นจากการลงมือทำอย่างต่อเนื่องแม้ในวันที่รู้สึกเหนื่อยที่สุด ท้ายที่สุดแล้ว Homo Finisher ไม่ได้หมายถึงแค่การวิ่งมาราธอนเท่านั้น แต่หมายถึงทักษะในการเอาชนะใจตัวเอง ทำทุกอย่างจนสำเร็จตามเป้าหมาย ไม่ว่าจะเป็นเรื่องงาน สุขภาพ หรือการพัฒนาตัวเองอื่นๆ ลองเริ่มจากก้าวเล็กๆ ในชีวิตประจำวัน เช่น การเดินหรือวิ่งวันละ 15 นาที เพื่อฝึกสมาธิและวินัย แล้วคุณจะสัมผัสได้ถึงความเปลี่ยนแปลง และพบกับตัวเองเวอร์ชันที่แข็งแกร่งและมั่นใจขึ้นอย่างไม่น่าเชื่อ

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Sam

Sam

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The book cover for Jennifer Hartmann's 'Still Beating' features a heart-shaped locket on a chain amidst shattered glass or water droplets against a dark, starry background. The book rests on a plaid blanket, with overlay text 'BOOK REVIEW' and 'Lemon8 @ramseymccoulskey'.
Book Review: Still Beating by Jennifer Hartmann
From the very first chapter of Still Beating, the book draws you into a dark and brutal nightmare. However, amidst the darkness, a glimmer of hope and strength emerges. Initially, I mistook this book for a dark enemies to lovers romance, but it turned out to be quite different from what I had antic
Ramsey 📚

Ramsey 📚

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The book 'Sworn to Ruin Him' by H.P. Mallory rests on a sword, surrounded by white roses, green foliage, and four lit candles on a white fluffy surface. A wooden stick is also visible.
The book cover 'Sworn to Ruin Him' is centered, with arrows pointing to keywords like 'Slow Burn,' 'Forbidden Romance,' 'Enemies to Lovers,' 'Camelot Retelling,' 'Dark Romantasy,' 'Magic,' 'Deadly Trials,' 'Spicy,' and 'Hidden Identity.'
A book review for 'Sworn to Ruin Him' by H.P. Mallory, showing the book cover, a five-star rating, and three chili peppers. The text describes it as a dark Camelot retelling with forbidden romance and open-door spice.
✨Sworn to Ruin Him Book Review✨
Sworn to Ruin by H.P. Mallory is a spicy dark romantasy that is a Camelot retelling where Guinevere is sent to take down Arthur disguised as a man participating in his deadly knight trials. It’s full of magic, deceptions, and a page turner. Yes, it’s also available on Kindle Unlimited too! @hpmallo
EscapeThroughABook

EscapeThroughABook

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A book cover for "Still Beating" by Jennifer Hartmann, featuring a heart locket in water, is displayed on a beach background. Text overlays highlight tropes: Dark Romance, Traumatic Event, Forbidden Love, and Enemies to Lovers.
A book review graphic for "Still Beating" by Jennifer Hartmann, showing the book cover on a beach background. The image includes "Book REVIEW" at the top and a "RATING:" with four yellow stars at the bottom.
A synopsis for "Still Beating" by Jennifer Hartmann is presented in a blue-grey text box over a beach background. The text describes Cora and Dean, who must work together to survive after years of conflict.
BOOK REVIEW : STILL BEATING
“Every love story is worth writing, no matter how messy it is”. SYNOPSIS: After fifteen years of teasing, insults & never ending pranks, the ultimate joke seems to be on them. The two people who always thought they’d end up killing each other must now work together if they want to survive l
Jessie 🫶🏼✨

Jessie 🫶🏼✨

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SMUT Checklist
I’m so all over the place when it comes to reading and so many on my TBR! But hopefully this will keep me Organized lol Updated 02/05/2025 #booktok #reading #readersoflemon8
Ashley Scott

Ashley Scott

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A book cover for 'Knot Happening' by Kira Roman, featuring a woman's face, surrounded by keywords like 'Second Chance,' 'Masked Alpha,' 'Two Omegas,' 'Stalking,' 'Spicy Club,' 'Omega Trafficking,' and 'Dancer,' with arrows pointing to the cover.
Book Review/Recommendation
I love this book so much! This story follows Tatum, Easton, Hayden, Declan and Kodiak to their HEA! #bookrecommendations #omegaversebook #spicybooks #bookreview
HonestBookMama 📚📚

HonestBookMama 📚📚

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A collage of six book covers categorized as 'Military' romance. Titles include 'Blood of My Monster,' 'Bullet to the Heart,' 'Escape Mission,' 'Lie to Me,' 'Tormentor Mine,' and 'The Last Letter,' featuring diverse romantic and suspenseful imagery.
A collage of six book covers under the theme 'Unhinged Dark Romance.' Titles include 'That Luv,' 'The Sinner,' 'Pretty Monster,' 'Fear Me, Love Me,' and 'Hunt Me Darling,' displaying dark and intense romantic visuals.
A collage of six book covers categorized as 'Blond MMC' (Male Main Character). Titles include 'Cruel King,' 'Stolen Heir,' 'The Blood We Crave,' 'Bound By Duty,' 'The Predator,' and 'Captive in the Dark,' featuring various dark romance aesthetics.
Book recommendations
#books 📚 #reading 📖 #books 🫶🏼 #👋 spicy 🌶️ book🌶️readers ❤️ #spicybooktok😈 #spiciestbooks #spicybooks #
Mars

Mars

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✨Hollow Book Review✨
✨✨✨✨Book Review✨✨✨✨ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 🌶️🌶️🌶️ 📖Hollow by Karina Halle 📚Book 1 ✨Fantasy Romance 💖Insta Lust 💘Angsty 🏫Academia 🧙‍♀️Witches 🪄Magic 💭Spooky, spicy, witchy academia that’s a headless horseman retelling? Yes, please! I loved it! I loved the whole suspenseful vibe, and honestly, I’m st
EscapeThroughABook

EscapeThroughABook

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A hand holds the book 'Credence' by Penelope Douglas, featuring a misty forest cover. The image has text overlays 'A Controversial Book I LOVED' and a 5-star rating, with 'Lemon8 @paytonmey' at the bottom.
A hand holds the back cover of 'Credence' by Penelope Douglas, showing the book's synopsis. Text overlays read 'the back of the book was enough to hook me' and 'It's spicy, a bit dark and somewhat romantic'.
An open book displays a page from 'Credence' by Penelope Douglas, with highlighted text including 'I love you. You're so fucking ours. We love you.' Overlays state 'A girl moves in with her step uncle and cousins and it gets spicy' and 'I was dying to know who she'd choose'.
A Controversial Book That I Loved 😳
This book was all over TikTok and I finally had to see what it was about and LET ME TELL YOU, it was wild!! I’ve searched the internet and there are so many controversial reviews on this book. Some people love and some people find it disturbing. So let me start by saying this book is VERY SPICY
Payton

Payton

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The Joy of Many Lovers!!🤭
#polyamory #booktokgirlies #kindleunlimitedbooks #bookrecsromance #reverseharembooks
DalyReads

DalyReads

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A book review graphic for 'Heartless Game' by Jo Brenner, featuring a shirtless man on the cover. It highlights tropes like dark hockey, mafia, enemies-to-lovers, and a 5-star story rating with 3 chili peppers for spice. It mentions Reina University, journalist FMC, and obsessed MMC.
A blurb for 'Heartless Game' by Jo Brenner, describing Isaac Jones, a hockey player at Reina U, and a journalist who knows his violent past. She plans to expose him, leading to his dark desires being unleashed in a heartless game.
A book review thought discussing Isaac's transformation from a level-headed friend to a 'feral' book boyfriend for Tovah. It praises Chapter 11 as the standard for obsessed book boyfriends.
ARC Review: Heartless Game by Jo Brenner
🖤🏒 ARC Review 🏒🖤 𝒯𝒽ℯ ℴ𝓃𝓁𝓎 𝓅ℯ𝓇𝓈ℴ𝓃 𝒶𝓁𝓁ℴ𝓌ℯ𝒹 𝓉ℴ 𝒻*𝒸𝓀 𝓌𝒾𝓉𝒽 𝒯ℴ𝓋𝒶𝒽 𝓌𝒶𝓈 𝓂ℯ. —Isaac 📖 HEARTLESS GAME by Jo Brenner 🗓️ Release Date: April 27, 2025 Story: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 5 Spice: 🌶️🌶️🌶️ / 5 TROPES 🖤dark hockey 🏒hockey player/journalist 🖤mafia 🏒college 🖤enemies-to-lovers TLDR: Isaac is set
FavoriteSaintReads

FavoriteSaintReads

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New Journal Spread
#gradyhendrix #bookjournalspread #readersoflemon8 #bookrecommendations
MidnightColours🍉

MidnightColours🍉

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A two-tiered white bookshelf displays a collection of special edition romance books. The top shelf features books with elaborate covers like 'The Mindf*ck Series' and 'Sea of Ruin.' The bottom shelf holds numerous books with black spines and white text, alongside other colorful titles.
My beautiful trophy shelf
Some of my favorite special edition books, and they happen to all be romance. #contemporaryromancereads #booktrophies #booksbooksbooks #bookshelf
Anabooknerd

Anabooknerd

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Hollow Hellion Book Review 📖⭐️
Reading Check-in How's the 📖? 🌶️🖤⭐️😘 Favorite quote☁️: “ Hell is watching over me, my deadly guardian in the night” Discussion Point 💬: What happened with the monster? You only hear of him for a small portion of the book then never again. Next on Reading List 📚: No Mercy by Louise Steel
🌷🌛𝔍𝔬𝔡𝔦’𝔰 𝔅𝔬𝔬𝔨𝔰🌜🌷

🌷🌛𝔍𝔬𝔡𝔦’𝔰 𝔅𝔬𝔬𝔨𝔰🌜🌷

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It’s a dark romance 🖤
Not sure how Lemon8 feels about videos, but here we are! 〰️ 📚 The Undisputed Series by Renée Mo 〰️ 🖤 text message banter 🖤 morally grey stalkers 🖤 famous boxer men 🖤 all secretly softies 🖤 they k1ll together 🖤 lots of found family 〰️ 〰️ 〰️ #readersoflemon8 #darkromance #sportsrom
Renée Mo

Renée Mo

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Rating Freida McFadden thrillers
What is your favorite Freida McFadden book?? #thrillerreviews #freidamcfadden #bookreveiw
Yvonnie 🫶🏻

Yvonnie 🫶🏻

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Frieda McFadden Yes, No, Maybe
Here’s a quick Frieda McFadden yes, no, or maybe as someone who has read almost all of her books. I l generally like her writing but she has definitely had some bad ones. Other ones I’ve read not pictured: Ward D -Yes! couldn’t see the plot twist coming Do Not Disturb-Yes! Slightly pred
dani :)

dani :)

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The book cover for 'Hell Hath No Fury' by MercyAnn Summers, an Ends World Novel, Book 6, featuring a woman, rests on dark fabric and dried red rose petals on a wooden surface. A Lemon8 watermark is visible.
✨Hell Hath No Fury Book Review✨
✨✨✨✨Book Review✨✨✨✨ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 🌶️🌶️🌶️ 📖Hell Hath No Fury by MercyAnn Summers ♦️Book 6 ♦️Dark Contemporary Romance ♦️On Kindle Unlimited ♦️Check TWs ♦️Spicy ♦️Second Chance Romance ♦️Kidnapping ♦️Strong FMCs ♦️Past Unresolved Trauma ♦️Mysterious/Suspenseful 💭Reading this one as a stan
EscapeThroughABook

EscapeThroughABook

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A Penguin Classics edition of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein lies on a rumpled sheet. Handwritten notes highlight it as a "perfect read for October," "gothic horror/science fiction," "philosophical," "tragic tale," and "eerie," with a quote from the book.
⚡️Monster Madness: Started Frankenstein & Loving It
how have I never read this before? I wish I read it sooner. This is not what I expected…these are all thoughts I’ve had since starting this book. 💭📖 It’s quite literally the perfect October read. I’m loving it so much, even though it’s heartbreaking. My annotations are pretty heavy-handed and I
adoseofcozy

adoseofcozy

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MY DS20 MIRAGE BUILD GIFT WILL MAKE UR XMAS BETTER 😳🔥 #warzone #cod #rebirthisland #gaming #swagg
Knofoe

Knofoe

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Book review
Pages: 448 18+ Chapters: 50/51 —— I have not finished this yet! But I am a bit over halfway done I really like this so far! I recommend if you wanna read a spicy Noval! It’s a hockey-romance. I will be purchasing the sequel ‘Wildfire’ —— Where you can find this: Target Walmart Books-a-mi
нєαятѕ.4_ℓσяαα❕

нєαятѕ.4_ℓσяαα❕

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A collage featuring nine images, centered by an illustration of a couple with 'Spiral By: Bal Khabra'. Other images include a ballerina, a hockey player's jersey, couples embracing, flowers, and a 'Dirty Dancing' reference, reflecting romance and the book's themes.
Spiral by Bal Khabra REVIEW🩰🏒
SPIRAL by Bal Khabra twirled straight into my heart! From fake dating to real feelings, a swoony hockey player, and a graceful ballerina — this story gave me everything I love in a romance. Eli owns my heart now! If you’re into hockey romances with spice, sass, and soft moments, this one’s a 10/10
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cici✝️🎀🐆🍒🌷

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tomesandtoebeans

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Just finished
📚BOOK • REVIEW📚 The Inmate ✍️: Frieda McFadden ⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 Overall Rating 🌪️🌪️🌪️/5 Twist 🎧🎧🎧/5 Audio Rating 🤔🤔🤔/5 Afterthoughts Dang the way this girl dodges red flags is incredible, contorting herself around the truth on an Olympian level. And The audacity of her to be like, he was man
Jessica Early

Jessica Early

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