090:Christopher McDougall | Author "Natural Born Heros"

The Hard Way w/ Joe De Sena

Spartan Races

Fitness, Alternative Health, Health & Fitness, 792700

4.7 • 870 Ratings

🗓️ 10 May 2016

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Not too long ago every self respecting long distance runner was toting a dog eared copy of Christopher McDougall’s Born to Run, reconsidering their choice of footwear or forgoing shoes altogether. McDougall’s current explorations have led him to ask new questions such as: what makes a hero, are our vast human skills learned formally or innate and suppressed by culture? Is the ability to survive in dire circumstances unique or is it present in all of us and awaiting the opportunity to be unleashed? You may know Joe’s take on these questions, and in this episode learn if McDougall agrees.

Lessons: 
1. To be compassionate can also mean to help someone with their problem while it’s small and before it comes back to affect the community at large.
2. Many skills are latent, lurking just below the surface, and our mass culture has limited their full expression.
3. Being successful often means identifying and taking that one extra step that no one else is taking.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hey there you are about to see an amazing video with a guest you are going to love
0:05.0	first subscribe by hitting the button below help us on our mission. We want to rip
0:10.0	10 million people off couches. Welcome back to the mythical white barn here at gorgeous Riverside Farms.
0:17.0	I'm surrounded by natural-born heroes.
0:20.0	To my right and left, we have Mark Webb Webb it's always a pleasure to have you
0:24.4	likewise Joe's being a hero himself he's a I think he he was running through the
0:30.5	Sahara or something anyways if the Sahara or something. Anyways, something.
0:33.4	If the Sahara's in China, then probably.
0:35.2	Oh, it was the Great Wall.
0:36.8	Okay, great.
0:37.8	I always get those.
0:39.8	Oh, geography.
0:41.5	Anyway. We have I guess you can be Dr. Johnny Waite since
0:46.6	Del's been with us a past couple weeks but I will be Dr. Johnny Waite only if
0:51.5	Mary and our producer gives me permission to.
0:53.2	With Del not here, can I be an honorary doctor again, Marion?
0:55.4	Awesome.
0:56.4	Fantastic.
0:57.4	And thank you Marion for everything.
0:58.8	And I am Sephra, the question mark, soon to be some sort of hero, big, undefined, the world is your
1:09.3	oyster.
1:10.3	The problem is, we used to call a rewilding expert which you are I mean in terms of helping people
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