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The Intentional Advantage

Challenging the 3% with Chris Norton

The Intentional Advantage

Tanya Dalton

Self-improvement, Business, Management, Education

4.8602 Ratings

🗓️ 30 November 2021

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Is adversity an advantage? Sometimes it can feel like the deck is stacked against you… but what if that is actually an opportunity to step into becoming your best self? Today's guest, Chris Norton, personifies the adversity advantage. He believes taking radical responsibility for yourself can allow you to unlock the "power to stand." Chris was told that he had a 3% chance of ever regaining movement and feeling below the neck. What sounded completely hopeless, he saw as an opportunity to conquer and to step into being the 3%. 

 

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0:00.0

Extraordinary is a choice. Take that in, soak it up because the hustle, grind, repeat mantra that society's been touting for decades, it had it all wrong.

0:13.2

I'm Tanya Dalton. I'm a seven-figure entrepreneur, bestselling author, speaker, mom, and rule breaker.

0:19.7

I'm here to help you live to your fullest potential. That's what this

0:23.7

podcast is all about. The intentional advantage is doing life on our own terms, defying the status quo

0:30.7

and seeing ourselves outside of the tidy definitions society's made for us. It's intentionally

0:36.6

choosing to step back away from the chaotic

0:39.3

rush of your everydays and choosing. Choosing to see that it's your world and it's filled with

0:46.3

opportunities. Let's challenge the bedrock beliefs that so many have wholeheartedly trusted because we

0:51.8

were told they were truths. Let's have a healthy disregard

0:54.6

for the impossible. Let's choose to be extraordinary. Hello, hello, and welcome to the

1:06.8

intentional advantage. I'm your host, Tanya Dalton. This is episode 247. And let's start this

1:14.5

episode with a question. I want to know if you were told that you had a 3% chance at being

1:22.6

successful at achieving your cathedral. And for those of you who have read my book on purpose,

1:28.6

you know what I'm talking about there.

1:30.4

Your cathedral, when we're talking about cathedral thinking,

1:32.9

is this big, bright, beautiful tomorrow that we're looking towards,

1:36.4

this vision we have for what we want, what we desire in our future.

1:41.3

So if you were told you only had a 3% chance of being successful at getting to

1:47.5

that cathedral, would you take those odds? Three percent? Not very much, right? I think here's the thing.

1:55.2

And this is really our focus for today is we think about these big things that we want to do, these giant things.

2:03.5

And on purpose in the book, I talk about it like the Grand Canyon of where you are now

2:08.5

and where you want to go. The distance between them is like this white chasm. It's like as big

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