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🗓️ 9 October 2024
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Sabrina Little is a 5x national champion ultra runner who happens to also be a professor of moral philosophy. During her career, when she wasn’t breaking American records, she earned a Phd in Philosophy at Baylor University. More recently though, she published her book “the Examined run - why good people make better runners” all about how running fits into a happy and fulfilling life. Her book is filled with thought-provoking lessons for anyone who loves to run and she is the perfect guest to explore how running can make us better people or even how practicing virtuous traits can make you a better runner.
One of the key tenets of Sabrina’s writing is that virtuous traits like patience and empathy are teachable and performance-enhancing, so practicing them is beneficial to excelling in sport. This means that becoming a better person can actually be a tool to improve your running!
Some of the topics we cover include:
Sabrina has a way of making philosophical topics approachable and relevant to runners that we’re sure you’ll love. Tune-in and find out for yourself how you can become a happier and faster runner all at the same time.
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0:00.0 | Everybody's talking about sodium bicarbonate and we're talking about ketones and we're talking about these carbon plated shoes |
0:07.6 | But there are these special traits that also enhance your performance and perhaps even more so than whatever shoes you put on or your like sweat resistant t shirts like these things make a big difference, right? |
0:24.1 | Like if you have resilience and you are in the middle of a hard race |
0:28.3 | and you hit the wall, I mean, I don't know how much shoes |
0:31.9 | are going to help you in that circumstance but if you are a person who's like constituted with resilience then you're probably going to come out a lot stronger. |
0:40.3 | So if only for performance reasons we need to take our character seriously |
0:45.9 | But character does matter for much more beyond performance |
0:50.9 | My guest on today's show is an incredible athlete and also one of the most thoughtful interviews I've done. |
0:57.0 | If you're not familiar with Sabrina Little, she's a five-time national champion ultra-runner with American records in the 24-hour and 200-K events. |
1:05.1 | Her accomplishments go way beyond ultra-running though because she has a PhD in philosophy from |
1:09.1 | Baylor and in March released her first book, They Exam and Run |
1:12.7 | Why Good People Make Better Runners. |
1:15.3 | She has an incredible way of putting into words |
1:17.2 | what I think the majority of runners intuitively believe, |
1:20.2 | which is that the same traits that make us better as people, like perseverance, courage, and joy, |
1:25.1 | also make us better runners. She describes these virtues as the carbon-plated shoes of the soul. |
1:31.5 | I love this comparison, and I knew after reading her book that I had to discuss how |
1:35.9 | practicing character building can improve your running. Sabrina gave some really great examples |
1:40.7 | of how she practices different virtues with the athlete she coaches. |
1:44.0 | And she helped me to answer some pretty profound questions, |
1:47.0 | like how running fits into a happy life. |
1:49.0 | And what it really means to be limitless is an athlete. |
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