I'm doing the build out of the gym and I realize I'm $10,000 short.

So I go to my dad and I ask my dad if I can borrow $10,000.

That to me at the moment was an incredible failure. I

cried after I got off the phone asking for it. I cried to Heather and I felt humiliated.

I went through that process, call it grieving or whatever you want to do.

And then as quickly as I could reframe it to you, I am going to feel so good when I pay this back.

I am going to work so hard to make sure that this is not that his trusted me, his generosity,

his belief that I can do this, whether he did believe that I would just be a good dad.

I am going to prove to him that I can do this. And that became such a motivating factor.

We are here because we know the outcomes in our lives are within our control.

The taking absolute ownership of how we eat, sleep, train, think and connect with each other

is how we'll optimize our health and happiness. That chasing excellence is how we grab hold

of what is possible. Our mission is to live on the run. Always chasing. Never stop.

Hello Ben. Hey Patrick. How are you today? Good. Good. Today we're going to talk about something

that I'm really curious you are take on. And the subject sort of broadly is failure.

How you think about failure, how you've experienced failure.

To get into it and part of the challenge of thinking through the thinking about what kind

of questions I wanted to ask you was even though I know you so well, it's hard for me to really point

at many failures, at least from a professional side of things in your life. I look at things like

this podcast for one, I look at Com train, I look at CrossFit New England, I look at

Noble and CrossFit Tilt and the list is very long of things that you have had your hand on that

have succeeded, quote unquote, succeeded from the outside. And so I wanted to start this conversation

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