#358 - Failing your way to Success (Chapter 1 Cont.)

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Ben Coomber

Science, Education, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement

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🗓️ 24 September 2018

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Too many people are scared of failure, but it shapes success. In this podcast I continue my story of how I went from bad personal trainer, to AWESOME personal trainer.

I share the story where I realised I was bad, the self-awareness steps I went through, and how it shaped my career as a coach. This is the 2nd half of the introduction to my book 'How to be an Awesome Personal Trainer', which is available on Amazon if you'd like to buy it:

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, Vancouver Radio episode, doesn't matter.
0:03.0	Anyway, remember last week I read the, well part of the introduction to my awesome personal trainer book
0:09.5	and I kind of talked about hard work and shaping your career. Well today I want to move
0:15.3	on to the second part of the introduction of my book. I think it's highly valuable.
0:20.0	I think it's something that everyone will take some lessons away from and it's kind of the
0:24.4	story how I realized I was bad at my job and I needed to be better. So without further
0:29.2	ado here we go. My story and how I realized I was a bad personal trainer. It took me quite some time to realize that I wasn't the best personal trainer in the world. I lost five and a half stone when I was 18 and was inspired to become a
0:44.8	personal trainer through my own battle with obesity and several other health issues I had at
0:49.9	the time. My transformation was so life-changing that it ultimately changed my career choice.
0:56.7	I left a career destined for acting to pursue personal training to teach others about
1:01.5	the power of nutrition and movement. After my
1:04.9	transformation I invested in my education. I learned a lot of cool stuff which
1:10.0	led me to become a nutritionist, personal trainer, a massage therapist, and I was fortunate
1:15.2	enough to have some money put aside to do these courses, studying a great deal in a relatively
1:19.9	short space of time.
1:21.6	At this stage in my life I studied mostly through the
1:24.0	Czech Institute and immersed myself in as many aspects of health and movement
1:28.2	coaching that were available to me at the time. So much knowledge I had acquired. I felt bulletproof. In my mind I had all the skills to become the best personal trainer in the world, but in short I became arrogant.
1:41.0	I felt I knew it all. All I needed now was for people to listen, apply the
1:46.2	knowledge I'd been given them and success would be theirs. I coached for nine
1:51.3	months in a private facility as a self-employed personal trainer before I got itchy feet at the stage at the age of 21 and I went to university.
2:00.0	There I continued to coach at a Fitness First Gym, my first experience of commercial gym environment.
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