#153 Rich Roll on Why Consistency is the Key to Success

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Dr Rangan Chatterjee

Health & Fitness, Medicine, Alternative Health, Mental Health

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🗓️ 3 February 2021

⏱️ 95 minutes

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CAUTION ADVISED: this podcast contains mild swearing.

Today I’m welcoming back my good friend and fellow podcaster, Rich Roll, for the third time. Rich has recently gone back through his 500 plus podcasts and collected words of wisdom from 50 of his podcast guests in his new, self-published book Voicing Change which is, quite simply, a thing of beauty. Rich was a huge influence on my own decision to start a podcast – and to evolve it into long form conversations. So, we kick off our chat talking about the craft and what we have learned from it.

He explains that he likes to prepare well and research his guests but ultimately trusts in the process and his instincts. That’s advice that translates to all walks of life, from a sporting event to a job interview. We discuss how leading with your own vulnerability can be the key to putting other people at ease and helping them to open up.

Rich reveals how every success in his life has been very hard fought and has been a process of work undertaken consistently, aggressively and anonymously. He believes that many of us overestimate what we can do in a short period of time and wildly underestimate what we're capable of accomplishing over a decade or a number of years. Above all, he is a believer in process over outcome, the journey not the destination. Growth is all about stepping outside your comfort zone.

Over the past year, of course, that journey has been difficult for all of us. But even in the face of global calamity, Rich has some great practical advice on how best to survive and even thrive. We discuss parenting through the pandemic, Covid’s effect on the world’s mental health and our worries about its impact on our kids. But ultimately, Rich believes we can navigate through the fear and emerge from this era with more resilience, better able to handle difficulties. I hope you enjoy this conversation as much as I did.

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0:00.0	The quick fix kind of hack your life mentality is a close cousin to the clickbait sound by media culture.
0:09.2	We all want it now. We want it immediately. We want to be the best version of ourselves tomorrow.
0:14.8	We want to read this book or do this one thing and fix everything overnight.
0:20.5	And it just doesn't work that way. And I think even if you were given the opportunity to snap
0:26.9	your fingers and you know become the person who always wanted to become, you're still robbing
0:32.2	yourself of what's most valuable about that transformation, which is the journey to get there.
0:38.1	Every success that I've had in my life has been very hard fought and has been a process of a lot of
0:47.2	behind the scenes work undertaken consistently, aggressively and anonymously. You move these
0:55.3	mountains over a very slow period of time. Hi, my name is Rongan Chateji. Welcome to Feel Better Live More.
1:09.9	Today I'm welcoming back for the third time my good friends and fellow podcast
1:14.9	a rich role. Now for those of you not familiar with Rich's backstory, I'd recommend listening to
1:21.6	episode 28 of my podcast where we go through it in detail. It is really, really inspiring.
1:28.6	Now in summary, Rich used to be a successful lawyer, but at the same time he was really struggling
1:34.9	with alcohol. This led to a few low points in his life, one of which was walking up his stairs
1:41.2	in his early 40s and having extreme chest pain. This led to him completely turning his life
1:48.7	around. He transformed his diet and with his new found health, he started to compete in ultra-
1:54.8	endurance events and has been named as one of the fittest people on the planet. Now I'm a big
2:00.1	fan of Rich because through his life journey, he's learned a lot of universal truths which he shares
2:06.0	openly to help us understand that change is available to us at any time. Now Rich has recently
2:13.6	gone back through all of his 500 plus podcasts and has collected words of wisdom from 50 of his
2:20.6	guests in his new self-published book, Voicing Change which quite simply is a thing of beauty.
2:29.6	Now Rich has had a significant influence on my own decision to start a podcast and to evolve it
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