651 Overcome All Odds with Amy Purdy

The School of Greatness

Lewis Howes

Inspiration, Education, Greatness, Celebrity, Money, Relationships, Mindset, Health, Business, Self-improvement, Self Care, Health & Fitness, Fitness, Entrepreneurship, Mental Health, Success, Celebrity Interview

4.8 • 22K Ratings

🗓️ 8 June 2018

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

“WE’RE GOING TO FALL CONSTANTLY. WHAT KEEPS YOU YOUNG?” We all go through struggles in life, and it’s so easy to get into a loop of self pity. Instead, find a way to focus on your future. Make goals for yourself, especially if you find yourself in a life changing event. Where do you want to be in six months? What accomplishment do you want to make in the next year? Life’s too short to dwell on the present, so look forward to the future. The importance of creating this sort of accountability really got me thinking about a past episode with one of the most inspirational people I had on the show: Amy Purdy. Amy is a Paralympian who lost both of her feet. It didn’t stop her from becoming a world class athlete and someone that even Oprah has called her hero. On this episode of 5 Minute Friday, Amy discusses how she was able to overcome seemingly impossible obstacles by shifting her mindset to one that is selfless. Learn all about how you can overcome the impossible, on Episode 651. In This Episode You Will Learn: Amy’s 3 Goals she gave herself (1:08) When Amy’s new journey began (2:06) Why she decided to keep training for the Paralympics (3:09) Plus much, much more

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0:00.0	This is five minute Friday!
0:09.6	We have an incredible guest today. Her name is Amy Purdy and man. This woman blows me away
0:15.7	I'm so inspired by this human being. She is a top-ranked female
0:20.8	Adaptive snowboarder in the US and a three-time World Cup Paris snowboard gold medalist and also the 2014
0:28.1	Paralympic bronze medalist. She had to amputate both of her legs below the knee when she was a young woman and
0:35.3	Overcame so many obstacles then later she
0:38.9	Recently was on dancing with the stars and took runner-up after inspiring the nation by all of her incredible
0:45.8	Dance routines that she did she also went on tour with Oprah and Oprah calls her her hero
0:51.0	She is such an inspiring person and man this conversation. I did not want it to end
0:58.2	I remember I gave myself kind of three goals as I was going into them
1:03.3	Like literally as they were wheeling me from my room into the surgical room
1:07.3	I gave myself three goals and I think I did this because I needed to feel some kind of control. Yeah, you know and
1:13.7	I knew that well one of those goals was that I was going to snowboard that year and
1:21.1	I guess I now I realize I'm just that type of person where I'm like I
1:25.9	Throw myself into things like I'm going to get in shape and I'm gonna do it every single day until I'm there
1:31.7	I've three days to get in shape or you know for that it was like I'm snowboarding, but I'm snowboarding this year
1:36.0	Wow, and then I knew that when I figured it out or the other goal is when I do figure it out
1:42.8	I want to somehow help other people
1:45.3	Let them know that it's going to be okay, but I first have to figure that out
1:48.7	You know yourself
1:50.7	I'm gonna be okay with it. Yeah, I think you know that idea there is just that I needed something to feel and control of
1:57.2	And to get me through that experience something to look forward to like I said I would do this
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