Caroline and I are two very ambitious people. This site, and it’s dedication to paving the way to being epic, is proof positive of that. We have a list of martial arts we want to learn longer than I can count, we both have around 10 instruments we want to learn, we’re currently studying Japanese, Mandarin, Cantonese, Korean, Russian, German and French. We want to get in shape, and to get as good as possible at Parkour, breakdancing and acrobatics.

On top of all this, we’re renovating our house and working on starting two businesses, Viking Design and MoveFree Shoes. We’re writing several blogs and I write on the side as the Cincinnati Martial Arts Examiner. We’re also both working on our own novels. Oh, right, we have to eat too. Forgot about that.

Frankly – there’s just not enough time in a day.

Pondering this perplexing problem I remembered something I had read about a few years ago while still in college called ‘polyphasic sleep’. As it turns out, it may be just the solution we’ve been looking for.

Since this site is devoted to becoming ‘epic’, it stands to reason that defining what we mean by ‘epic’ would probably be a good place to start.

The popular definition of what constitutes ‘epic’ varies considerably, and not of all of the definitions are necessarily positive (epic fails come to mind as a good example). I think what best sums up the popular definition of ‘epic’ would be ‘performed in a way that is impressively great, noteworthy, unique or to an extent well exceeding what would normally be expected.’

That definition is well and good for a lot of things, but it doesn’t quite fit what we’re talking about. Sure, it’s a good measure by which to judge if an action is epic, but we’re looking more for a definition that describes how a person could be defined as epic.