114: Col. Fellinger | Key Principles of Mental Resilience

The Hard Way w/ Joe De Sena

Spartan Races

Fitness, Alternative Health, Health & Fitness, 792700

4.7 • 870 Ratings

🗓️ 25 October 2016

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

With a military career spanning 26 years, retired Col. Fellinger has become a model of resilience and fitness. He asks that you bring him the hardest problems you have because he lives to overcome them. As he explains, it’s a process and one that can be practiced but not necessarily mastered. After all, if you’re not at least a little off balance, how are you challenging yourself and growing stronger? Joe and he discuss the most vital element to fitness--building mental strength through motivation, risk taking, mental agility and mental resilience.

Lessons:

1. Remember the French Paratrooper’s Prayer (to paraphrase): Give me Lord what others don’t want, uncertainty, doubt, torment and battle, but also the courage, the energy and spirit to face them.
2. To stay motivated take the first step and you will soon create irreversible momentum, inertia that will take on a life of it’s own.
3. Build mental resilience through facing challenges you didn’t anticipate and generalizing the resultant confidence throughout your life.

Transcript

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0:00.0	You know I was really inspired by this French paratroopers prayer,
0:04.1	1942 prayer, I guess they found and I don't know have you heard of it?
0:08.4	Yeah, I think the prayer referring to and I'm going to paraphrase here just a little bit.
0:14.0	This paratrooper prays to God not for the things that everyone else asks, but for the things
0:18.8	that no one asks for and what he's looking for is the hardest things in life
0:24.0	and the strength to overcome those hard things because he believes that some day in life
0:29.0	he may not have the strength to continue to ask for those hard things. Welcome to Spartan Up Podcast.
0:38.0	We've got Joe DeSena, Johnny Weight, Dave DeLuca,
0:42.6	Sefra, I love that you're just Sefra,
0:45.1	it's like Share, just one word, Prince.
0:47.4	And we have Marion behind the camera.
0:49.7	We never get to see Marion, but Marion nods
0:51.2	we know you're there.
0:53.0	You know who is here in spirit, but you were actually with him.
0:57.8	Colonel Felinger.
0:58.8	Oh, he's an animal.
0:59.8	Incredible.
1:00.8	This one, I thought, was so incredible. You talk about when life hands your hard stuff you want to know how to deal with it? This is the guy.
1:06.4	Yeah, this is the guy. This is almost like the wolf in Pulp Fiction. Yeah, absolutely.
1:11.0	I didn't know you were calling the wolf.
1:13.0	And now we're calling Feliger.
1:15.0	This guy will fix it and he'll show you to which is even more important.
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