by Tom Shanabarger
This article series is titled after a book that forever changed the way I look at competition. The book was about Mark Donohue. He was a race car driver during the early days of what has now evolved into NASCAR. He would keep coming up with ways to help his performance and then after that they would change the rules to exclude what ever he had done. For example at one point he put his gas can 15 feet into the air and used a long hose. The acceleration due to gravity allowed him to fill his tank in a fraction of the time. Another time he drilled holes all over the frame of the car. They didn't compromise the structure of the car but it did allow him to lighten the car significantly. The lesson that I took away from it was simply his true unfair advantage was his mind and his ability to work within the rules to improve his outcome. As such this series will focus on sharpening our minds and finding ways to create an unfair advantage.
