How to embrace perspective and be more positive - with the professional rugby player turned walking quadriplegic and now movie star Ed Jackson
A New Way of Being
Simon Mundie
4.8 • 523 Ratings
🗓️ 26 August 2024
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Ed Jackson is a bloody inspiration. He was a professional rugby player before his career was cut short when he dived into a swimming pool and broke his neck. He nearly died and was told he would not walk again. But Ed worked his butt off and confounded the critics, going on to make a remarkable recovery - and has since developed something of a penchant for climbing mountains. And now, a movie has been made about his remarkable story, called The Mountain Within Me. It's currently in UK cinemas, and I can't recommend going to see it enough. This is a rerelease of the first conversation Ed and I had a few years ago, and I am chuffed that his epic story continues to develop in such impactful ways.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome back to a new way of being. |
| 0:17.0 | Hope you're well and thank you for joining me. |
| 0:19.0 | This conversation is with a chap. I'm rather fond of. |
| 0:22.2 | His name is Ed Jackson. He's been on the show a couple of times and he is a former professional |
| 0:28.7 | rugby player whose career was cut short when he dived into a swimming pool and broke his neck. |
| 0:35.5 | The doctors, the experts told him that he would not walk again, |
| 0:38.9 | but he massively confounded those expectations, |
| 0:42.5 | and he's got on to achieve great things. |
| 0:44.4 | So much so that he has a new movie out called The Mountain Within Me. |
| 0:49.4 | And I'll just read a quick bit of the blurb. |
| 0:51.5 | After suffering a catastrophic and almost fatal spinal cord injury, |
| 0:55.9 | pro rugby player Ed Jackson's world changed forever. The Mountain Within Meek follows Ed's |
| 1:01.0 | journey on his recovery as he achieves the mental and physical heights of Snowdonia, |
| 1:06.3 | the Alps and Himalayas to the life-altering challenges closer to home. |
| 1:11.2 | I've no doubt this movie is going to be absolutely fantastic. |
| 1:15.5 | I'm going to watch it when I'm back from Texas. |
| 1:17.9 | And in the meantime, I just wanted to re-release the first conversation I had with Ed |
| 1:22.9 | because I was so struck by how he'd gone through something so traumatic and yet emerged |
| 1:31.7 | as a better version of himself in many ways, not physically, but in terms of perspective |
| 1:37.4 | in particular. And I think there's so much, so many of us can learn about things like |
| 1:42.1 | perspective and gratitude for what we have rather than |
| 1:46.2 | always focusing on what we don't have and what we want to have in the future. And so Ed's attitude |
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