Greg Everett on Becoming Tough

Chasing Excellence

Ben Bergeron & Patrick Cummings

Self-improvement, Crossfit, Holistic Health, Mindset, Selfimprovement, Education, Wellness, Health & Fitness, Goalsetting, Health, Attainability, Fitness

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🗓️ 2 February 2021

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Greg Everett is the founder of Catalyst Athletics and the author of the new book, "Tough." In this conversation, we dive into pursuing toughness by developing our character, our capability, our capacity, and our commitment.

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0:00.0	This stuff is essentially a lifelong process, right?
0:04.7	It's not a weekend project.
0:06.2	You're going to bang it out this weekend and the next weekend you'll go back and you can
0:09.9	build a cabinet or something, right?
0:12.6	But the thing is, it's a gradient, toughness and all the elements of toughness lie on a
0:17.7	gradient or a spectrum, whatever you want to look at it as, so that it's not, you're either
0:22.0	tough or you're not.
0:24.0	And therefore, if you start not tough trying to get to tough, you just stay not tough forever
0:29.9	until suddenly you hit toughness.
0:33.2	It's every moment that you are working on that.
0:35.8	You're making some kind of forward progress and you are getting tougher step by step by
0:40.0	step by step.
0:41.4	So it's like, if you're going to walk a mile, you can look at each step that hasn't reached
0:46.9	the end as failure, right?
0:48.7	I haven't gotten to the mile yet.
0:51.3	Or if you're smart, you look at each step as being one step closer to the mile.
0:55.6	So you are that much farther along in the process.
0:59.4	We are here because we know the outcomes in our lives are within our control.
1:03.8	That taking absolute ownership of how we eat, sleep, train, think and connect with each
1:08.3	other is how we'll optimize our health and happiness.
1:12.1	That chasing excellence is how we grab hold of what is possible.
1:16.3	Our mission is to live on the run.
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