025: Richard Branson | Shares his Secrets to Success

The Hard Way w/ Joe De Sena

Spartan Races

Fitness, Alternative Health, Health & Fitness, 792700

4.7 • 870 Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2015

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Richard Branson defies conventional wisdom on success. With Virgin Airlines - he started a thriving airline literally in an afternoon. With Virgin Cola - he took one of the most successful companies of all time head on and almost won. With Necker Island - he acquired the island first believing that the money to develop it would show up eventually, it did. A notorious adventurer, Branson is clearly, within reason, not afraid to live.
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Lessons:
1. Get out of your comfort zone and go into the world and explore.
2. Push yourself beyond your limits.
3. Practice balance. Learn to trust your instincts.
4. Find fun ways to stay fit - involve your friends and family.
5. Look for the best in people. There is always something special to acknowledge in a person.
6. Forgiveness mends.
7. Expect things to be hard along the way but be sure to enjoy the sense of satisfaction from simply trying and being on the journey.

Transcript

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0:00.0	You're listening to SpartanUp Podcast.com where we study success and everything required to create it.
0:05.7	We interview people from all over the world that are successful, no matter how they define it. We are here in Pittsfield at Spartan Up Podcast Headquarters.
0:15.0	Great Headquarters.
0:20.0	Great Headquarters. That Headquarters, yeah.
0:23.0	We got Sethra, who is our foraging expert.
0:26.0	We've Colonel Nye, and then we've got Dr. Johnny Waite, who can fix you no matter what your problem is.
0:31.0	He's done it for me.
0:32.0	This is an interesting podcast. He's done it for me.
0:33.2	This is an interesting podcast.
0:34.5	It's a big one.
0:35.2	Huge.
0:36.2	Got invited down to go see Richard Branson on his island.
0:38.8	The only caveat was I had to swim to the island.
0:41.9	The boat dropped me off. I think it was about nine or ten miles away.
0:45.1	It was an awful swim. It's a good swim. I turn to my left at one point to catch
0:49.8	some breath. I don't know, two or three miles in and I see a fin.
0:53.0	Talk about heart pounding right?
0:56.0	Turns out he's got some trained shark down there.
0:58.0	Yeah, it's like his bodyguard or something.
1:00.0	He's a shark lover.
1:01.0	It's a robot or is it? I don't know what it was. It's a rare endangered species.
1:05.0	Joe became a robot. I started swimming. I looked like an outboard motor. I got to the island anyway. Great interview.
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