073: Mike Roberts | Lessons from Outside Magazine

The Hard Way w/ Joe De Sena

Spartan Races

Fitness, Alternative Health, Health & Fitness, 792700

4.7 • 870 Ratings

🗓️ 19 January 2016

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

As Outside Magazine Editor, Mike Roberts has access to the stories of the top outdoor athletes in the world and to their wisdom as well. He’s seen Kelly Slater, “the Michael Jordan of surfing,” heal his life through the zen of the water, and age gracefully through his sport. He has also seen top climbers act boldly, but with a skill honed through the culmination of years of dedicated practice. Through these stories we can garner how to be a better human, how to risk without risking it all, how to truly be alive and not just live.

Lessons:
1. In tough times you can either be afraid or think “what an interesting time to be in” and seek creative solutions.
2. Use the lessons that you find in pursuit of your passion in the other areas of your life to help make you a whole person.
3. Excellence in sport doesn’t necessarily have to waver once you reach middle age: for one thing, you often gain the wisdom to keep going, to learn to suffer a bit better.

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	We are here for Spartan up podcast on a unusual rainy day with Dr Johnny
0:17.8	Sepfra, Dr Nye and Marion the nurse. We got to get our doctor at Joe.
0:24.0	We interviewed Michael Roberts from me.
0:26.0	Well, I got to get.
0:27.0	We interviewed Michael Roberts from Outside magazine.
0:29.0	You guys are going to love this guy.
0:31.0	He's interviewed for years, amazing athletes to Kelly
0:36.2	Slater for instance, so come up later. And I think he's got some real good lessons that he learned
0:41.3	by interviewing all these guys.
0:42.8	Cool.
0:43.4	So this is the best of, instead of just one person.
0:45.6	It's everything he's learned.
0:46.4	Like the best of, he really dives heavily into permaculture.
0:50.4	Perfect.
0:52.1	In first. Let's head outside. I'm joking. But yeah, let's say it's not a joke.
0:58.0	How you doing? We are here for Spartan Up Podcast somewhere in California at an undisclosed location, Mike Roberts,
1:05.2	executive editor, outside magazine. He's a pretty secretive guy and we couldn't tell anybody where we are.
1:11.5	So, but we're going to talk about 15 years have been there?
1:14.4	Yeah, 15 years, unbelievable. Had a lot of different roles over the years, seen a lot of stuff.
1:18.0	You know, you like to hear this. I travel a ton right now. I was home 90 days last year, which may not be a lot for you.
1:24.0	It's one of those magazines where it just feels authentic and real like you look at a
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