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Chasing Excellence

#088: Two Minute Drill, #9

Chasing Excellence

Ben Bergeron & Patrick Cummings

Holistic Health, Fitness, Wellness, Mindset, Self-improvement, Crossfit, Health, Health & Fitness, Education

4.82.2K Ratings

🗓️ 2 September 2019

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

We’re answering more listener questions, including my tips for increasing your pull-up strength, how to recover better when you’re an older athlete, and whether CompTrain will ever field a team at the CrossFit Games.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

I think that you are the sum of your thoughts.

0:02.1

You are just a compilation of the things

0:05.0

that you think about, the actions and the behaviors

0:08.4

that you elicit and the choices that you make.

0:11.1

All of those have to do with your mindset.

0:13.3

If you can remain calm in a crisis,

0:16.5

if you can have better decision making,

0:18.6

if you can learn better and have better focus,

0:21.0

all of that comes from quote unquote mindset training.

0:24.7

Now, the thing I would kind of like qualify that is,

0:29.5

you don't need to train it.

0:31.3

You don't need to do meditation.

0:34.6

You don't need to do mindful.

0:36.9

You can do those things and it's certainly very helpful

0:39.7

and almost every high achiever will kind of say

0:43.3

that they have some sort of practice in place for that.

0:45.5

But the biggest thing is like awareness.

0:47.7

Just become aware of that voice inside your head

0:51.5

and realize that you are in control of that.

0:57.2

We are here because we know the outcomes

0:59.1

in our lives are within our control.

1:01.7

That taking absolute ownership of how we eat,

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