I'm trying to get harder and tougher mentally and physically every day in my life.

You're either the growth mindset or you're the fixed mindset.

If you're trying to be the best, you need to look at who the best is and see what they do.

Relentless pursuit of progress.

There is a difference between the best and the rest.

Welcome to the Brute Strength podcast.

Champions are built in the morning first.

Where we interview scientists, world champions, doctors, and experts in just about every

area of health and fitness.

What do you care enough about?

What are you fascinated enough about to go so deep and learn so much that you'll know more about it than anyone else.

And now here's your host, Michael Cashew.

Thank you. Welcome back. This is Michael Cashew and you're listening to the Brute Strength podcast. Today I've got David Epstein on the show.

David has two New York Times bestselling books called The Sports Gene and another called Range. And in general, he is dispelling some huge

myths in the world and in society. One about the fact that you don't have to have great genetics to be a great athlete,

and the other about how it can actually be a benefit and an advantage to switch sports or

switch careers or switch anything many, many times throughout your life rather than it

being a detriment.

For so long, we've been told that we need to specialize.

We need to pick one thing and become the expert on that to be successful, to be fulfilled,

and he really dispels that in his book range.

Specifically, we talk about his experience living in a tent in the Arctic

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