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Paul McKenna's positivity podcast.

Hello, this is Paul McKenna, and welcome to the positivity podcast.

My objective is to interview the most interesting people in the world,

and in the next 30 minutes, get insights and even discover how it is that they do what they do,

what makes them unique and fascinating, their success

mindset, and certainly what keeps them positive. My guest today is a former long-distance

runner. She's a three-time winner of the London Marathon, three-time New York Marathon

champion and Chicago Marathon winner as well. She was previously the fastest female marathon runner of all time.

I'm talking today with Paula Radcliffe.

Generally, I'm quite happy, so I tend to try and look for the positives in any situation.

And there's usually something, even if it's a pretty bad situation,

there's usually something that you can get out of it.

Aim for the moon, because even if you, you're still land among the stars.

And I think that was really key.

You can aim for lots of things you may not even achieve.

But by trying to stretch yourself to achieve those, you achieve much more than you thought you were capable of doing.

Worry about what you can control and don't worry about what you can't control

so all those things that I think people are getting depressed

about are things that they actually can't control

be nice to other people, treat other people

as you would want to be treated yourself

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