#108: When People Judge Your Passion
Chasing Excellence
Ben Bergeron & Patrick Cummings
4.8 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 20 January 2020
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
We're answering a few listener questions this week about how to respond to people who don't get why you're dedicating your time and energy to something they don't understand (like trying to make it to the CrossFit Games).
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | If you don't want to be criticized, if you don't want to be questioned, if you don't want anyone |
| 0:06.5 | talking badly about you, do nothing at all. That's the surefire way to do that. Well, if you want |
| 0:11.0 | less of that, do what everyone expects of you. Go be a doctor or a lawyer. Go become an accountant. |
| 0:18.1 | Like that's such a... There's no risk you got it. Anything that carries any level of risk |
| 0:23.5 | aka failure disappointment is going to carry with it other people saying like don't do it. |
| 0:29.5 | Don't do it. Why are you doing this? We are here because we know the outcomes in our lives are |
| 0:35.1 | within our control. The taking absolute ownership of how we eat, sleep, train, think and connect with |
| 0:41.4 | each other is how we'll optimize our health and happiness. That chasing excellence is how we grab |
| 0:47.1 | hold of what is possible. Our mission is to live on the right always chasing never stopping. |
| 0:54.9 | Hello and welcome back to another episode of Chasing Excellence. How are you? I'm doing good. |
| 0:59.2 | Thanks Patrick. Today we're going to talk to you. We're going to talk to you about a couple of |
| 1:03.2 | things. A couple of people reached out to me separately with some questions that I felt like had |
| 1:09.2 | some similarities enough that I wanted to kind of jam them together and see what we can get out of it. |
| 1:14.4 | The first person who reached out to me was a 17 year old athlete, CrossFit athlete, |
| 1:18.6 | takes it very seriously, wants to get to the games sometime in her 20s-ish. One of her questions, |
| 1:25.6 | and the one that really stuck out to me was about people looking at her and questioning |
| 1:31.8 | why she's dedicated to this thing that most people don't understand. I think the way she put it was, |
| 1:38.5 | how do I deal with people putting me in the crazy CrossFit or box? I think that that's an |
| 1:46.1 | interesting question in and of itself because she's 17 and because that's always a tough time to feel |
| 1:52.6 | you're being singled out for something. Then a few days later I got a message from a |
| 1:59.2 | master's athlete asking roughly the same question. Both of these individuals are really happy with |
| 2:05.2 | what they're doing. They feel really passionate about it. They're excited about what they're doing |
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