Hello everybody, welcome back to the show. My guest today is Rich Roll. He's an ultra-endurance

athlete, a podcaster, and an author. In today's modern world, a relentless pursuit of goals often

leads to being overworked and burned out. Finding a balance between working hard enough to achieve

your dreams without destroying your sanity along the way is a difficult balance, but Rich seems

to have found a solution. Expect to learn what it means to have lower companions who hold you back,

why we are all so addicted to progress, why you might be more dependent than you think,

who is the most controversial athlete in all of endurance racing, why Rich takes a

manuary sabbatical how to deal with setbacks in life, the keys to resilience, and much more.

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welcome, Rich Roll.

At what age did you start sorting your life out?

It's a good question.

I think the moment where I began to really look inward and take stock and inventory of my life,

legitimately for the first time, was probably when I was 31 and found myself in a treatment center

in rural Oregon, faced with confronting a decade plus problem with drugs and alcohol,

nowhere to escape, just a bunch of counselors,

and a bucolic countryside and a hundred days to really start to understand

why I had ended up in this place, which certainly was not the plan for my life. I can tell you

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