#27 - Is Your Passion Productive or Poisonous?
Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast
Mike Tarrolly
4.8 • 739 Ratings
🗓️ 9 February 2017
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
It's natural to get excited about triathlon, but when does it work against you? Mike and Coach Robbie recently read an article called "When Passion Becomes Destructive" by Brad Stulberg and it kicked off a lot of bad memories. Times when the only thing that mattered in their lives was their "A Race" and how that took them away from things that are really important. Today's podcast covers:
- The difference between harmonious and obsessive passion
- How we can apply lessons from the Super Bowl to our Big Race
- Cultivating long-term health, happiness, and performance while avoiding suffering
- Why we take training failures personally
- How to not get sucked into a never ending cycle of searching for satisfaction
- Why obsessive passion can lead to depression
- How to trade awards and rankings for mastering your body
- The number one recipe for distress and failure
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | What's up, man? |
| 0:06.7 | Hey man, how are you? |
| 0:07.9 | I'm good. I think I was calling you at the exact same time. |
| 0:10.9 | Oh, man. Same wavelength. |
| 0:13.0 | I know, man. It's right on schedule. |
| 0:15.8 | It's a big deal. |
| 0:17.3 | It is a big deal. |
| 0:18.4 | How you doing, man? Are you surviving the post-Super Bowl letdown? |
| 0:24.0 | I mean, it wasn't really a letdown. |
| 0:26.4 | For me, I'm not a huge fan. |
| 0:28.0 | I'm not a huge fan of either. |
| 0:29.5 | Oh, yeah. |
| 0:30.8 | You know, I did make a pick that was wrong. |
| 0:34.6 | I thought for a minute there we were right on the money. |
| 0:38.1 | Yeah, seriously. |
| 0:39.1 | I was pretty close. |
| 0:39.9 | I was a pretty close. |
| 0:40.1 | Atlanta blowout there. |
| 0:42.1 | Yeah, but no, things are good. |
| 0:44.0 | I'm actually lacing up a new pair of Newton's as we speak. |
| 0:50.5 | Oh, Newton. |
| 0:51.8 | And today's podcast is brought to you by Newton. |
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