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EP. 835: WHY ARE YOU QUITTING? | BUILDING DISCIPLINE & MENTAL TOUGHNESS

Gritty Podcast

Brian Call

4.7 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 28 March 2024

⏱️ 64 minutes

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0:00.0

You are listening to the Gritty Podcast where we talk about all things Gritty.

0:07.0

Welcome to the Gritty Podcast. I'm Brian Call.

0:17.0

Brad Hunt is here beside me.

0:21.0

We're on the road driving to Boise for Bear Tour event and another

0:26.9

question that came out up at the last Bear Tour we were in in Missoula. We got the question quite a bit, not just in the

0:35.8

Q&A session, but just... Yeah, people pulling us to the side. Yeah. We're

0:40.3

doing gear stuff and we got asked many times kind of the same question.

0:45.0

Yeah, how do I stay on the mountain? How do I not quit?

0:51.0

Yeah. How do I develop more mental toughness? How do I stay? Yeah. And it came up over and over again,

1:02.2

which I think at this stage in the game for us. I mean I'm almost 50

1:09.5

You've been doing you've been doing this for a long time too, Brad,

1:12.6

even though you're only a young 35-year-old?

1:15.5

35, hey, come on, I'll be 36, no.

1:18.0

I got a long time from 36.

1:19.6

So I think we take it for granted. We do we just do. Yeah. So there's so much to cover on this topic. But I think what we want to do today when a guy says how do I stay out there longer how do I how do I not go home quit

1:40.4

Especially guys that hunt solo. Yeah like man I I last and then you know and then I then I call it

1:47.2

quits so there's some very practical things that you can do right out right out the gate that can help

1:55.6

Help you stay in the mountains longer and then there's some more deeper philosophical I think like foundational things yes about your core as a person that that

2:09.6

also need to be in place.

2:13.0

Right.

2:14.0

So, you know, there's no doubt that what we do has a degree of mental toughness, you know, woven into it. It's it is

2:30.0

succeeding despite the odds, you know, there's physical suffering discomfort, right, deprivation,

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