Good morning and welcome to the Increase Your Impact podcast. I'm Justin Sua, episode 1,900. Have you ever heard, have you ever heard the story of the discovery of the South Pole? It's a really good story. And it took place starting in 1910. And it was essentially a race between two camps, one camp led by Roland Amundsen and the other one was led by Robert Scott.

Now, there's a lot of complexity to the story.

But essentially, experts say that both teams were evenly matched.

However, it came down to their strategy, how they approached pursuing the South Pole.

Amundsen team, Amundsen's team, they completed a 20 mile march every single day, no matter what.

It didn't matter if the weather was good.

It did not matter if the weather was good. It did not matter if the weather was bad.

They committed to going 20 miles every single day. Scott's team took a different approach.

They tried to take advantage of the good weather and marched 40 to 60 miles when the weather was good.

And when weather was bad, they used that to their advantage.

They rested in their tents and they saved their energy.

Now, what was the result?

Abensen's team dominated.

Their approach to go 20 miles every day, regardless of what the weather was like, allow them to make it to the

South Pole one month before Scott's team. Now, the lesson in this, one of the many lessons. Now,

there's a lot of other nuances and complexities to it, variables to it, but the lesson behind

this is Amundsen's team was committed to consistency.

They did not allow the environment, the weather, the things they could not control to control

their progress. They had a standard. Their standard was 20 miles a day no matter what,

whether they felt like it or not, and they stuck to it and they didn't allow the

bad circumstances to derail their commitment to what they said they were going to do.

Scott's team, on the other hand, allowed their environment to dictate their actions.

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