BITESIZE #75 | Chrissie Wellington: The power of perspective
The High Performance Podcast
High Performance
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🗓️ 22 July 2022
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
This week's bitesize comes from the incredible Chrissie Wellington, a former British professional triathlete and four-time Ironman Triathlon World Champion. She held all three world and championship records relating to ironman triathlon races and remains the world record holder for Ironman distance (8hrs,18 mins).
Chrissie's story is utterly incredible. Her name - and most importantly, her lessons - should be well known. In this clip Chrissie talks to Jake and Damian about the power of perspective. Watch or listen the full episode here: https://www.thehighperformancepodcast.com/podcast/chrissiewellington
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| 0:00.0 | Hi there, thanks so much for joining us for another Bite Size episode of the High Performance |
| 0:03.6 | Podcast. We fully understand that you can't always give up an hour of your time to listen |
| 0:07.9 | to the conversations we have on here. So what we do is we look back over past episodes, past |
| 0:12.6 | conversations, and we just focus in on one or two comments. And we go a little bit deeper on those |
| 0:18.0 | just for three or four minutes just to get you closer to your own version of High Performance. |
| 0:23.7 | And today we're going to wind the clock back to episode 98 of the High Performance Podcast |
| 0:29.3 | when we were joined by the incredible Chrissy Wellington. Now she is a four-time Iron Man triathlon |
| 0:35.5 | world champion. She competed despite the fact that at times she had serious illness that she had |
| 0:41.0 | to struggle through incredible injuries. She's also worked for the government, she's an author, |
| 0:46.6 | she's a really deep thinking spiritual powerful person. And you're about to hear her talk about |
| 0:52.4 | perspective. And before we hear from Chrissy, let me just share the one trick that I rely on every |
| 0:58.5 | single day when it comes to perspective. I remind myself of the stoic quote, Memento Mori, |
| 1:06.0 | which basically is a way of saying you're dying. Now it's really easy to look at that and go, |
| 1:11.7 | what a horrible negative approach to life to remind yourself that every day you're dying. |
| 1:18.6 | And in fact, I'm going to get M, M tattooed on the inside of my wrist because I want this to be |
| 1:24.9 | drummed home to me every single day. And I think for me, it's a reminder that it could end at |
| 1:31.0 | any time. So if it could end at any time, if you were to leave your life right now, that needs to |
| 1:36.7 | determine the decisions that you make. That needs to determine what you do. It needs to determine |
| 1:43.7 | what you say. It needs to determine what you think. It needs to determine the people that you choose |
| 1:51.3 | to spend your time with. And perhaps more importantly, the people that you choose not to spend |
| 1:54.8 | your time with. Memento Mori. Remember death. And I come to the end of every day. And I think to myself, |
| 2:05.2 | a, well, okay, good. Today wasn't the day. But also that's another 24 hours gone by. And I'd |
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