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🗓️ 24 October 2022
⏱️ 164 minutes
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0:00.0 | You know, we all have these talents in us that we have no idea about and we have these paths in our lives that we can take at any time. |
0:11.0 | That we never get to see because we never take them. |
0:14.0 | If you know yourself and you can give yourself something to do, you can replace dark thoughts with other thoughts. |
0:24.0 | Make a small promise to yourself. It might be a walk. It might just be waking up before noon. |
0:34.0 | It's a small promise and you're going to start really small and it's going to seem tiny and all you got to do is keep that small promise to yourself. |
0:43.0 | Every positive change in my life has built from the ability to keep a small promise to myself. Change starts small and it's a daily habit of doing the small thing to start the day. |
1:01.0 | And you turn yourself into a winner by having a small win every day and that's how it happens. |
1:19.0 | The Rich Roll Podcast. |
1:39.0 | Although we had never met in person until the date of this podcast, nonetheless has greatly inspired and influenced my endurance career. |
1:49.0 | He's somebody who has kind of mentored me from afar and weighs almost beyond my ability to calculate. His name is Gordo Bern. |
1:58.0 | If you're a veteran, endurance or ultra-endurance junkie like myself, then chances are you may already know what a legend this guy is. But for everybody else, Gordo is a guy who kind of took the road less traveled. |
2:12.0 | He's a former private equity investment banker who ended up transforming himself into an elite ultra-endurance athlete, as well as a student of elite performance, a veteran endurance coach, a co-author with Joe Friel of the endurance Bible entitled Going Long, and mostly a devoted family man. |
2:33.0 | One of the things that makes Gordo more aspirational versus inspirational is that his athletic journey, this guy who started out as an obese finance guy and turned himself into an elite athlete, really began with a simple walk. |
2:50.0 | That walk turned into a jog, that jog turned into a run, and thereafter, what set in was this obsession with elite endurance performance that culminated in seven sub-nine hour Ironmans, including an 829 for second place at Ironman Canada, and also being crowned Ultraman World Champion in 2002. |
3:12.0 | So a result at my very favorite race that captured my fascination and really motivated in so many ways my own Ultraman dreams and performances. |
3:24.0 | In addition to some shared DNA that we have in both our backstories, as well as our life philosophies, one of the reasons that Gordo was able to so profoundly impact me back in the mid to late 2000s during my most intense years of training and competing, |
3:40.0 | is that he was a willing and early adopter of sharing his experience on the internet as a web 1.0 blogger, as well as an early podcaster. |
3:50.0 | It's a tradition he continues today on Twitter at Field of Burn, a platform he uses to share his experience in wisdom on everything really, everything from endurance training to marriage and parenting. |
4:02.0 | It was truly an honor to spend an afternoon with a man who has influenced me so profoundly, it was kind of like meeting a lost twin for the first time, and this conversation was everything I hoped it would be. |
4:14.0 | So in addition to chronicling Gordo's life story among the specific topics we cover, which are bound with actionable advice, applicable to not just athletes, but truly to everybody, we discuss leveraging pain to catalyze a life change. |
4:31.0 | We discuss the dangers of chasing elite performance. We talk about what endurance teaches us about life. |
4:39.0 | We discuss the importance of creating what he calls a 1000 day plan and how success is really built upon small steps undertaken with ruthless consistency. |
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