164: Peter Phillips | Can the Royal Family Teach you Anything About Grit?
The Hard Way With Joe De Sena
Spartan Races
4.8 • 874 Ratings
🗓️ 10 October 2017
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
What can a member of the Royal Family teach us about grit? Does a privileged background make it tougher to acquire the passion to succeed? Peter Phillips, eldest grandchild of Queen Elizabeth, was brought up to make sure he didn't take his good fortune for granted. As you'll learn in this episode, there were several strategies to ensure that he would be a team player who had the tools to DIY. They also discuss the ways most people think versus the way successful people think. Find out which category you fit in, and if it's the wrong one, how to change it. Lessons: 1. Favor lateral thinking, over linear thinking. 2. There is no such thing as a "
Lessons: 1. Favor lateral thinking, over linear thinking. 2. There is no such thing as a "
1. Favor lateral thinking, over linear thinking. 2. There is no such thing as a "
2. There is no such thing as a "self made man." You need people to help you along the way. 3. A "fear factor," having something up for
3. A "fear factor," having something up for stake in business, often drives success.
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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
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| 0:00.0 | We are here for Spartan Up Podcast. We've got Seth from my left. We've got Dr. Johnny and we've got to stand them for Colonel Nye, David DeLuca, our philosopher, who definitely poses some questions that we can't answer at times. |
| 0:12.0 | Oh, and Marion, the communist. poses some questions that we can't answer at times. |
| 0:13.0 | Oh, and Marion, the communist. |
| 0:16.5 | We're going to interview Peter Phillips here. |
| 0:17.9 | You're going to love it. |
| 0:18.6 | Peter, for those of you who don't know, |
| 0:20.3 | is the first cousin of William and Harry, the son of Anne, Charles's sister, |
| 0:27.0 | royal family. Can't even believe that I had the opportunity to stand with royal family. |
| 0:32.0 | We didn't sit and I think it's going to blow you guys away. I think it's a real introspective |
| 0:37.1 | into what somebody like this, how we think. |
| 0:40.5 | We are here for Spartan Up Podcast. |
| 0:45.0 | We're at the Telegraph, where are we? |
| 0:48.0 | Business of Sports Conference in the UK. |
| 0:51.0 | And I am with Peter Phillips the eldest grandchild of the Queen. |
| 0:56.1 | So we are with royalty. |
| 0:58.8 | So with this podcast we're trying to always dig down and find out what makes |
| 1:04.9 | somebody successful. Could be a monk, could be a business person, could be a mom, |
| 1:08.8 | somebody that just gets it done in life and we've done a ton of interviews and what we typically find is people |
| 1:16.3 | that learn to bootstrap, you know, pick themselves up from the gutter and just got it together |
| 1:21.4 | and we're relentless. |
| 1:22.4 | In your situation, it's very interesting to me. and just got it together and were relentless. |
| 1:23.2 | In your situation, it's very interesting to me |
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