069: Dean Karnazes | Advice: Fail Boldly
The Hard Way w/ Joe De Sena
Spartan Races
4.7 • 870 Ratings
🗓️ 22 December 2015
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
In world renowned ultra runner Dean Karnazes, Joe tracked down a real Spartan by both disposition and bloodline. Does he eat gruel for breakfast, take cold showers, and run wearing a hundred pounds of armor? Maybe. He’s run marathons in every state and is now setting out to do the same in every country. Certainly that falls within the same spirit. So you might be taken aback to hear that Karnazes tells us that we should set out not only to fail, but to fail big. His advice is backed up by a life changing experience that he will describe in this episode.
Lessons:
1. To achieve great things take small steps and ask yourself at every step if you’re conducting yourself with discipline.
2. Never stop exploring: don’t be afraid to try new things and eventually you’ll discover your passion/s.
3. Fail boldly: the most useful lessons are learned from the most dramatic failures.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Spartan Up Podcast. We're going to interview somebody every week from all over the world and see what they did in their life to become successful, no matter how they define it. |
| 0:12.0 | Is that it? |
| 0:13.0 | That's it. |
| 0:14.0 | Rolling. |
| 0:15.0 | Dean Granassius. Good morning everybody. |
| 0:16.0 | We're back here in the beautiful barn in Pittsfield, Vermont. |
| 0:20.0 | As always to my left, I've got Sephra. |
| 0:23.0 | I've got Joe DeSena. |
| 0:25.8 | I've got Johnny Waiting. |
| 0:26.8 | We're gonna talk this morning about Dean Carnassius, |
| 0:30.3 | legendary ultra-Marathoner, a honest-to-God DNA approved or certified Spartan. |
| 0:37.0 | He's a Spartan. |
| 0:38.0 | He's got Spartan blood. |
| 0:39.0 | So you've talked to him and you talk to him about what, about how to be a Spartan or how did he become a Spartan |
| 0:43.8 | or just everything why I mean is he's a solid guy he gets it done he drinks |
| 0:47.8 | some I don't even want to tell you what he drinks we got to watch this |
| 0:50.9 | when you see what he drinks to get through his runs |
| 0:54.1 | It's not like bodily fluid. I'm not telling you I'm not telling you all right. |
| 0:58.8 | But he's got the mindset that'll help you get to be a better parent |
| 1:01.6 | Be a better whatever in life we are here on a |
| 1:06.3 | rowboat dean and I dean carnassis for Spartan up podcast and this is a an |
| 1:15.0 | moment we were about to hand Dean the original Spartan coin. |
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