Welcome to Your World Within Daily. I'm Eddie Panero, and in this episode, we're going to talk about something I learned in college that stuck with me, and it's the who listened to my YouTube channel might have even heard this.

But here's a kind of a different, different take, a little bit of a different spin,

because this idea, in a nutshell, has, you know, really helped the way I look at things,

particularly when things are dire and stressful situations, when you want to stop.

And sometimes when you forget why you started to begin with, right?

You need to take a look and really examine the world that you're living in.

And so as the story goes, so I was a freshman at Holy Cross and wanted to continue playing sports.

I was a soccer guy in high school and wanted to continue doing something in college.

And I ended up rowing, right, which is, or crew, as some people call it, which is a very

physically demanding sport, something that, you know, as a young athlete, I'd never, you know,

there's a difference, right? Soccer's, you have to be in shape, but it's more finesse.

Where rowing is truly, I mean, it's, you have to have technique, but it's grit.

Right.

It's who can suffer the most.

And who can pull the most when they hurt.

And that concept, you know, by itself was something that we all had to step into. We all had to learn and it really

defined who we were. And I remember doing these pieces on the rowing machine. We call them

pieces. It would be like five minutes, like five by five minutes or you know three by 10 but whatever the

workout was as freshmen and it was this level of suffering where eventually you start rationalizing in

your head right so at some point you get to a level you're like okay i'm going to start pulling less now

and you start making excuses for why it's okay. And our freshman coach, at one point, he said,

you know, sometimes success is simply hanging on when others are letting go, when it really hurts,

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