Who can you work with versus how can you get something done?

Spartans, welcome back to another episode of the Spartan Way Podcast.

I'm Zach Evernish coming to you from Boston, Spartan headquarters and today what I want to talk to you about is who can you work with versus how can you get something done?

So we always think about how can I achieve something,

how do I get there, but it's not so much how do you do it

because there's other people that have already done

or achieved what you want to do.

So how can you collaborate with people so

instead of thinking how you need to start thinking about who? So I'm going to take

you back to two crazy stories to my teenage years when I was competing in bodybuilding. So it was the

summer of 1994 and I was in Israel visiting my grandparents and my brother. My brother

was in the Israeli army and he had told me about a small

local gym that had opened up in town and he spoke to me about a guy named Joe

who was training at that gym who was trying to get into the Israeli SEAL teams.

So one night I visit the gym 30 minutes, 45 minutes before closing, very small gym

and as I'm walking down the stairs I see a poster as I'm walking down the

stairs the poster says Mr Israel bodybuilding contest not only did it have the

men's group but it also had the teenage division which was

called the young mr Israel the 18 and under and for the first two weeks that I

was there I kept saying well I'm just going to go and watch.

I'm not even going to compete.

The owner of the gym kept saying,

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