583 - WHY Spartans Conquer and How to Think Like one with Joe de Sena

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🗓️ 5 May 2020

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Joe De Sena worked for the mafia. He learned a lot from them. But then he realized you can make more money doing good. So he switched lives. Which is something a lot of people want to learn. I asked how he did it. (You’ll hear his process). And you’ll hear how he developed Spartan Race, the world's leading. obstacle race. He's also the author of "Spartan Up, Spartan Fit and The Spartan Way" and host of "Spartan Up!" podcast. I write about all my podcasts! Check out the full post and learn what I learned at jamesaltucher.com/podcast. Thanks so much for listening! If you like this episode, please subscribe to “The James Altucher Show” and rate and review wherever you get your podcasts: Apple Podcasts Stitcher iHeart Radio Spotify Follow me on Social Media: YouTube Twitter Facebook Linkedin Instagram

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0:00.0	This isn't your average business podcast and he's not your average host.
0:06.4	This is the James Altiger Show.
0:09.4	Today on the James Altiger Show.
0:15.6	I think many of us want, I mean that word Spartan means so much.
0:18.3	I think many of us want to be Spartans.
0:19.8	We don't want to be overburdened for the bunch of material things and who doesn't want to
0:24.0	look like a Spartan?
0:25.0	Who doesn't want to feel like a Spartan?
0:26.6	They just want a bunch of assholes.
0:28.5	The thinking was like if we want to be free from tyranny, if we want to be free from
0:35.3	kings or queens or whatever it may be, if we want to be free of disease, we're going
0:39.6	to have to work hard.
0:41.4	And they called the body and mind, they called this thing the structure.
0:44.5	And they said we got to take care of the structure.
0:47.3	We got to surround ourselves with like-minded people.
0:50.3	We got to have a system in place that we adhere to, right?
0:53.8	And the Spartan way is like I didn't invent the 10 principles.
0:57.0	These are just age old principles that if you embrace them and you get to know them and
1:01.4	you perfect them, you're just going to crush life.
1:04.0	Well when do you know when to give up something?
1:05.9	Or let's say you've been practicing the piano for five years and you're saying grit is,
1:10.9	go that one more time, find what you've been missing, try it over.
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