119: Damion Hahn | Why You Need to do What You Hate

The Hard Way w/ Joe De Sena

Spartan Races

Fitness, Alternative Health, Health & Fitness, 792700

4.7 • 870 Ratings

🗓️ 29 November 2016

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Damion Hahn came a hair’s breadth away from making the Olympics and advises those not achieving there goals “be mad about it, then turn your attention to tomorrow.” He channels that drive training a team that has been near dynasty for the last quarter century of Ivy League wrestling. They got there by honing raw talent. The best persist, the rest need to find their niche elsewhere. Hahn has seen this success translate into the wrestler’s everyday lives and he shares the methods that have built such consistent winners.

Lessons:

1. Everybody’s motivated differently; adjust your approach accordingly.
2. Enter each day with a purpose!
3. Be part of a community that motivates you achieve.

Transcript

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0:00.0	You didn't make the Olympic team, which means I could probably take you.
0:02.6	You probably can.
0:03.6	Welcome to Spartan Up Podcast from the lovely Amy Lodge in Pittsfield, Vermont.
0:11.5	As you can see, Joe is not with us today because he's
0:13.9	still recovering from this interview with the incredible wrestler Damien Han.
0:18.1	We're here at Cornell University with Damien Han, assistant wrestling coach to the championship team that's been going on like an incredible run for 25 years?
0:30.0	Yeah, we've had some good success here at Cornell, you know, especially within the IVs.
0:35.0	We've won 12 straight Ivy League Championships that's unheard of and the longest streak in the ivies.
0:44.0	We've placed in the top five multiple times at the NCA's
0:46.8	and coming from an ivy institution,
0:49.2	that's unheard of as well,
0:50.2	having no scholarships in the academic rigors
0:52.0	that we have here.
0:52.6	So we're in a phenomenal situation because we got the best of both worlds academics and athletics.
0:58.6	Success is hard, but staying on top is even harder.
1:02.4	Absolutely. You've stayed on top for even harder. Absolutely.
1:03.3	You've stayed on top for 12 years.
1:04.1	Is it the wide shoulders?
1:05.1	What's doing?
1:06.1	You know, I just think that we set a precedence with the kids that we recruit,
1:11.9	the people that we bring into our family, because that's what
1:14.1	this is.
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