An Expert on Failure / Joe De Sena and Jim Harshaw Jr
The Hard Way w/ Joe De Sena
Spartan Races
4.7 • 870 Ratings
🗓️ 9 November 2021
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Jim Harshaw Jr. is an NCAA Division I All American wrestler, former NCAA Division I head coach, and personal performance coach.
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| 0:00.0 | The concept of failure is kind of hot these days, right? |
| 0:03.7 | And we look at other people and we think, yeah, failure. |
| 0:07.2 | They failed along their path and they finally reached success. |
| 0:11.2 | But when it happens to us, it hurts, right? It's painful, it sucks, it's deflating, it creates |
| 0:17.8 | self-doubt, it gets that little voice in our head, go and see, I told you so, I told you you're not good |
| 0:22.0 | enough. And we don't like that right we |
| 0:23.5 | think it's okay for other people but we have to internalize and realize like no this |
| 0:28.0 | is actually this is actually a real thing and whenever you fail you have to actually be in the moment and catch yourself and going, |
| 0:34.6 | ah, okay, I'm about to quit or I'm about to lower my goals, settle for less. |
| 0:40.7 | But no, this is this is the path. |
| 0:42.4 | Welcome to But no, this is this is the path |
| 0:49.2 | Welcome to the Spartan Up podcast with Joe DeSenna, founder and CEO of Spartan Race |
| 0:54.0 | We are talking about overcoming obstacles. The same way we teach people to get over obstacles on the course, |
| 0:59.0 | we will teach you here on the Spartan Up Podcast |
| 1:02.0 | to get over obstacles in your mind. |
| 1:04.0 | Success through failure. |
| 1:06.0 | That's what Jim Harshaw Jr. is all about. |
| 1:08.0 | He explains what that means and how you can put it to use in your own life. |
| 1:13.0 | Plus a candid discussion between him and Jodicenna |
| 1:16.0 | about his four-part framework and what kids really need to be successful. |
| 1:20.0 | This episode of Spartan Up is brought to you by Fit Aid and Honeystinger. |
| 1:24.8 | Race Dirty, Recover Clean with Fit Aid or Fit Aid Zero Sugar. |
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