#098: The Discipline I Most Attribute To My Success (2:00 Drill #11)
Chasing Excellence
Ben Bergeron & Patrick Cummings
4.8 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 11 November 2019
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
We’re back with another episode of the Two Minute Drill! This time around, I’m answering questions about how to raise money for gym improvements from your current membership, training in a fasted state, & the discipline I most attribute to my own success.
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| 0:00.0 | identify your weaknesses. It is not your strengths. Our sport is very different than other sports. |
| 0:06.0 | In other sports, it's your strengths that make you elite. If you're an NFL lineman and you are |
| 0:11.7 | incredibly powerful and strong, you can make it to the NFL. Even if you lacked certain foot speed |
| 0:18.9 | or flip it, maybe you have incredible, you're incredible with your hands and knowing, you can always |
| 0:23.2 | get your hands on opponent, but you don't have the bull rushing power. You could still make it to |
| 0:27.8 | the NFL. What you want to do in those situations is double or triple down on your strengths. Imagine |
| 0:34.0 | taking a gymnast who has incredible X, Y, or Z and just like, don't train that, don't work on |
| 0:44.6 | that. Let's work on something else. Well, I'll send now the thing I got to the Olympics is gone |
| 0:48.5 | or wrestler or something else. So what we want to do in our sport is you are only as good as your |
| 0:54.3 | weakest link. We are here because we know the outcomes in our lives are within our control. |
| 0:59.8 | That taking absolute ownership of how we eat, sleep, train, think and connect with each other |
| 1:05.1 | is how we'll optimize our health and happiness. That chasing excellence is how we grab hold |
| 1:10.7 | of what is possible. Our mission is to live on the run. Always chasing. Never stop. |
| 1:18.7 | Hello and welcome back to another episode of chasing excellence. How are you? |
| 1:22.5 | Good Patrick. Thank you. Today we are back at a two minute drill. For those folks who do not |
| 1:28.0 | do not know what a two minute drill is, it is when listeners send me really good questions and then |
| 1:34.0 | I ask them to you. Very simple job for me today. You ready? Ready. All right. And I have to |
| 1:40.5 | answer the two minutes. Correct. Yes. That's why we call it in theory or in theory or you're |
| 1:44.8 | supposed to do otherwise. I think I'm supposed to slap you if you don't. I mean, a shock lock. |
| 1:49.4 | It doesn't happen. All right. Number one, how would you advise somebody who wants to take control |
| 1:53.9 | of their diet better, but who has in the past struggled with an eating disorder of some kind? |
| 2:00.4 | There's two major components that go into nutrition and that is quality and quantity. |
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