Getting What We Expect From Ourselves & How To Expect More w/ Anthony Trucks

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Kevin Miller

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🗓️ 5 September 2025

⏱️ 67 minutes

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The self-help and personal development world gives primary focus to increasing our performance so we can achieve greater successes in our lives. And it’s true we all are capable of more. Nobody is performing at their max capacity. But we won’t outperform the level of ability we believe about ourselves and all we have to go on is the proof of what we have and haven’t done thus far. It brings to mind Roger Banister breaking the four minute mile mark in running, which was deemed humanly impossible, but more importantly the four other runners who then did it within a year. All that changed is once they believed running a sub four minute mile was possible, they did it. Prior, they could not. Most of us are sitting where we are and desiring greater performance from ourselves but unable to see ourselves being at a higher level. If someone came along and ran a diagnostic test on us and said they had proof we could do and be more, I think we would in short order. To have a performance upgrade we need an upgrade to our identity. I’m bringing back a discussion I had with Anthony Trucks on the topic. Anthony is a former NFL Athlete, American Ninja Warrior on NBC, and prolific international speaker. And he knows difficulty. His mom gave him up to adoption at age three. He then spent three years in foster care amongst neglect and abuse before being adopted into an all white family. He made it to the NFL only to have an injury end his career and from there he spiraled down and lost…everything. His money, his wife to an affair, his children. Most people just don’t recover from so much. His identity was in the trash. But he did recover and now all that pain is the foundation of his platform for overcoming. His journey was one of giving focus to his identity and truly being able to see himself where he wanted to be, and this is the crux of his mission and message. He has a book called Identity Shift: Upgrade How You Operate To Elevate Your Life which contains some key principals I feel are revolutionary for all our efforts to upgrade our personal results. Find Anthony at https://www.anthonytrucks.com/ and check out his podcast, Dark Work Daily. Sign up for your $1/month trial period at shopify.com/kevin Go to shipstation.com and use code KEVIN to start your free trial. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome. I'm Kevin Miller. This is a podcast for your personal evolution. In this episode,
0:08.3	getting what we expect from ourselves and how to expect more. I mean, the self-help and personal
0:14.6	development world gives primary focus to increasing our performance so we can achieve greater
0:20.0	successes in our lives. And it's true,
0:22.8	we're all capable of more. I think we would all nod to that just quickly, but not really
0:26.8	think about it. I mean, how can anybody be performing at their max capacity, that idea,
0:32.7	if I did my best, I've never, not to be down on myself, but have I really done my best? I think we don't
0:39.1	outperform the level of ability we believe about ourselves and all we have to go on is the
0:46.1	proof of what we have and haven't done thus far. It brings to mind Roger Bannister,
0:50.4	if you remember him. He broke the fourminute mile mark in running, which was deemed
0:55.6	humanly impossible that your heart would explode or something. But what's even more impressive to me
1:01.6	is the four other runners who then did the same thing within a year. All that changes, once they
1:06.7	believed that running a sub four-minute mile was possible, they did it. Prior, they did not, could not.
1:12.8	I mean, most of us are sitting where we are and desiring greater performance from ourselves,
1:16.8	but unable to see ourselves being at that higher level. If someone came along and ran a diagnostic
1:22.7	test on us and said, hey, we've got proof that you can actually do more. You can perform better.
1:29.0	I think we would.
1:31.0	I mean, to have a performance upgrade, we need an upgrade in our identity, what we believe
1:36.3	about ourselves.
1:37.9	So I'm bringing back a discussion that I had with Anthony Trucks on the topic.
1:42.6	Anthony is a former NFL athlete, America Ninja Warrior, an NBC, and a prolific international
1:48.6	speaker.
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