159: Jesse Itzler | Exactly How Many Days Do You Have Left?
The Hard Way With Joe De Sena
Spartan Races
4.8 • 874 Ratings
🗓️ 5 September 2017
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
10,752 is the number Jesse Itzler had at the time of this interview, and on each of these he challenges himself to hack his mind into living a more productive and meaningful life. How do you get the most out of each day? Challenge yourself. Itzler believes in immersing himself in new worlds, changing his frame of reference. He turned over his life for a month to an ultra running Navy SEAL. This interview is so engaging we made Jesse Itzler keep talking with us all the way to our next meeting!
Lessons:
1. Remember your mortality to gain an appreciation for life.
2. All the best lessons are from things that are challenging.
3. Immerse yourself in a different culture to create a different frame of reference.
LINKS:
29029 - Climb Everest in Vermont with Jesse: http://29zero29.com/
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100 Mile Man: http://www.the100mileman.com/
Living With a SEAL: http://www.the100mileman.com/living-with-a-seal/
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CREDITS
Producer – Marion Abrams, Madmotion, llc. Hosts: Joe De Sena with Johnny Waite, Sefra Alexandra, Col. Tim Nye, & Dr. Delle Synopsis – Matt Baatz © 2017 Spartan
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Spartan Up Podcast. We're here in the Amy Barn, Johnny Waite, |
| 0:03.7 | Sephra, Tim Nye, Jotocenna, and Marion behind the camera. This one is brought to you by |
| 0:10.8 | Water.org. Check it out. Very important charity helping people around the world. is our topic |
| 0:17.0 | subject to you by water dot org check it out very important charity helping people around the world with fresh water Jesse Itzler is our topic this week our subject this week I should say famous for the the concept of living with seals this guy takes |
| 0:28.0 | takes immersive learning and takes an end degree. |
| 0:31.8 | In a water, human seals animal seals. |
| 0:35.3 | I'll tell you what. |
| 0:36.0 | What are we talking about here? |
| 0:38.0 | Stay tuned and you're about to find out. |
| 0:39.6 | All right. |
| 0:41.0 | We are here somewhere in New York City undisclosed for Spartan Up |
| 0:46.7 | Podcast with Jesse Itzler. Did I say that right? Yes. |
| 0:49.8 | Jesse and I know each other. It's got to be a decade, decade right and we haven't seen each other are you good? |
| 0:56.7 | We haven't seen each other a lot but you just got back from living with monks. |
| 1:01.2 | I did. |
| 1:02.2 | Can we talk about that or no? Sure sure we're gonna talk about with monks. I did. Can we talk about that or no? Sure, sure. We're going to talk about the |
| 1:05.5 | Navy SEAL. We're going to talk about the first time I came out to see you when you just had your baby. |
| 1:10.3 | Let's talk about a lot of stuff. I love it. Let's start with this thing. You write down on your |
| 1:14.9 | wrist how many days you have left to live based on the average human, the average American |
| 1:19.8 | what? I do, I do. I think that people have a really weird relationship with time. |
| 1:25.0 | It's something that's in their relationship with time is neglected. |
| 1:29.0 | So I said to myself, you know, I'm 48 years old and the average American lives to be 78. |
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