Ben Fogle - Overcoming My Lifelong Battle With Self-doubt
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
FlightStory
4.5 • 17.8K Ratings
🗓️ 24 May 2021
⏱️ 100 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Ben Fogle, |
| 0:01.1 | relentlessly pursues adventure, risk and challenge, |
| 0:04.5 | but this doesn't come from a place of strength and courage. |
| 0:07.4 | It comes from the opposite. |
| 0:08.6 | If you think you're going to fail, you're going to fail. |
| 0:12.2 | You just have to have this positive attitude and |
| 0:14.3 | and it was only actually working with Olympians that I've done now when I climbed Everest that I |
| 0:18.7 | realize you need this confidence verging on arrogance that I will get to the top of this mountain. |
| 0:25.5 | Three weeks before he was due to be born naturally and we lost our third child and it was an awful |
| 0:31.0 | awful experience that affected us profoundly. I became really introverted. |
| 0:35.8 | I'd go to events and I'd find myself going to the Lou and just sitting in the little cubicle |
| 0:40.0 | for the duration of the whole event. |
| 0:46.0 | Big mistake, we got death threats and worse. I shouldn't have shared this idea in a social media platform, |
| 0:52.0 | but I was amazed at the vile vitriolic abuse. Ben Fogle. He's a TV presenter, broadcaster and author. He's climbed Mount Everest, he's trekked across Antarctica, and he's rowed across the Atlantic Ocean. |
| 1:18.0 | Ben relentlessly pursues adventure, risk and challenge, but this doesn't come from a place of strength and |
| 1:24.1 | courage. It comes from the opposite. From a place that you would probably never |
| 1:28.1 | expect. This was such a diverse conversation and we covered so much and so many things. Ben has been on the most |
| 1:35.2 | incredible journey tearing up the script and ignoring the standard society sets for all of us on this |
| 1:41.3 | never-ending continuous journey of rebuilding himself as he says in |
| 1:45.8 | his own words and that journey has been inspired by one simple idea his desire to |
| 1:52.0 | take back control of his own personal narrative, something he believes |
| 1:56.8 | we've all lost control of. And this podcast is going to take you on a journey, from the need to a |
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