EFR 363: When Your Life Depends On It - Relentlessly Pushing Past Limitations with Brad Borkan
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Chase Chewning
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🗓️ 3 August 2020
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Brad Borkan is co-author of When Your Life Depends on It: Extreme Decision Making Lessons from the Antarctic. The book focuses on the real life-and-death decisions made by early Antarctic explorers like Shackleton, Scott, Amundsen and Mawson. When Your Life Depends on It reveals amazing lessons in leadership, team work, and sheer grit and determination that can help all of us make better decisions in our lives today. This can be especially useful when confronting adversity, building effective teams, and trying to succeed against the odds -- all important skills in today's world.
He has presented at Antarctic conferences in Norway, Ireland and the UK and appeared on cable TV in the US, and on internet radio talk programs. He also has given keynote presentations at business conferences and recently conducted a webinar to 500 top employees of a Fortune 100 company using the ideas in the book. His talks focus on leadership, teamwork, resilience, and improving one's personal and business decision making, all set in the exciting context of Polar exploration.
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| 0:14.0 | Hi, my name is Brad Borkin. I'm the co-author of a book called When Your Life Depends on it. My focus is on the life and death decisions that the early Antarctic explorers made on the ice, men like Captain Scott, Erdus Shackleton, and others, and looking at their situation is to help us all make better decisions in our modern lives. |
| 0:19.0 | I'm looking forward to sharing with you the ways we can look at risk and danger and leadership and teamwork and goals so that you can |
| 0:26.8 | put that into practice today and in the future. |
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| 0:57.7 | Welcome back everyone. |
| 1:00.9 | This is your number one source for inspiring content from people who are putting a purpose to their passion and truly living a life ever forward. |
| 1:09.0 | Conversations and messages that will take your fitness, nutrition, and mindset to the next level. |
| 1:17.0 | I am your host, Chase Chuning. |
| 1:19.0 | This is Ever forward radio. All right, all right. Welcome back to the show. Thank you so much for joining me today. |
| 1:35.8 | We are in for Adventure Time. Today's guest Brad Borkin is the co-author of |
| 1:41.0 | when your life depends on it. |
| 1:43.2 | Extreme decision-making lessons from the Antarctic. |
| 1:47.0 | Now, if you've been with me on the show for a while now, |
| 1:51.6 | you know that I do try to keep a little bit of variety rolling you living a life ever forward means bringing height and attention and awareness into a few key areas of our life I believe and those three kind of main columns have always been fitness, |
| 2:04.4 | nutrition and mindset, and mindset is what we are in for today. The mindset of these |
| 2:09.9 | early world explorers had to have to keep pushing and pushing and |
| 2:14.7 | pushing past physical limitations of human capability down at the bottom of the |
| 2:19.3 | earth in the Antarctic and his whole philosophy and the whole mindset that he found from these |
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