#112 - Turning Inspiration Into Action
Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast
Mike Tarrolly
4.8 • 739 Ratings
🗓️ 16 November 2017
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Is inspiration good if it doesn't create action? Today, Coach Robbie dives into Mike's brain to find out why he's so inspired, yet can't get training going. When does learning, planning, and researching turn into avoidance?
- Does inspiration always need action?
- Re-connecting with what you want to do and achieve
- The guy in a top hat and handle bar mustache
- Are you tired of settling?
- How to not care about what people think
- Why we let minor inconvenience trump momentum
- What worked in season works in off-season
- Painting the picture of your training
- Pre-mature optimization
- If you're out of shape, start now
- The things we make up in our head that hold us back
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| 0:00.0 | what's happening |
| 0:09.1 | it's cloudy it's rainy it's cold it's fall winter it's gross uh yeah it is but uh, uh, trying to not look at that factor. Oh, sorry. It's actually |
| 0:25.0 | sunny outside. |
| 0:29.0 | No, it's sunny inside. |
| 0:31.9 | Yeah, it's, it's, if you have the lights on, it is always sunny inside. It's always sunny in Philadelphia, too. |
| 0:36.9 | Yeah. No, I'm just uh |
| 0:38.9 | the other night I went to uh um an art talk discussion um yeah it was Monday talk discussion well I'm in a |
| 0:51.0 | it's a group called Nashville Creative Group. |
| 1:01.5 | And it was a, what they do is a bunch of, you know, there's like 6,000 people in there, |
| 1:03.1 | but maybe like 50 showed up. |
| 1:07.9 | And then they had like, what they have is once every few months, they have what they call show and tell or share and tell or show and tell or something like that where people get up there and like for a couple minutes maybe and just talk about |
| 1:15.2 | what they're working on and this guy like the first guy got up there and he had he's kind of an |
| 1:21.9 | older guy he had a handlebar mustache deal and he had like a kind of like a half top hat type deal on and this like black |
| 1:30.5 | suit and the circle glasses and everything and he got up there and I'm like damn this dude is like |
| 1:35.8 | got a good he's got a good look going on and uh yeah so he starts talking and his story was about he said seven years ago I had a stroke. |
| 1:48.0 | And he was a chef at the time, like kind of a, you know, I don't know where, but he was a big time. |
| 1:55.5 | Like a big time chef? He might have been. Like, I mean, big time like Nashville chef or something. |
| 1:59.2 | Yeah. Well, yeah, still. Being a chef in general was a big deal. Yeah. I mean, big time like Nashville chef or something. Yeah. Let's see. Still. |
| 2:02.6 | Being a chef in general is a big deal. |
| 2:03.1 | Yeah. |
| 2:06.5 | I mean, he called himself a chef, so he wasn't a cook, you know. |
| 2:08.6 | So I don't know what the difference between a chef and a cook is. But anyway, so he said he couldn't remember anything, like how to cook or anything like that. |
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