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The Hard Way With Joe De Sena

Inside the Mind of a Great Competitor: Capitalizing on Opportunity - SPARTAN MIND ep. 025

The Hard Way With Joe De Sena

Spartan Races

Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Education

4.8874 Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2019

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

Great competitors see the challenges they face and the hardships they endure as opportunities. We all experience difficult things but great competitors see those experiences as vehicles of wisdom, growth, and an opportunity to build obstacle immunity. They do not cower in the face of that which is difficult but rather rise because they know that in the end it will make them stronger and improve their performance.

 

LESSONS:

  • Remember that when a challenge is set in front of you, try to see it as an opportunity.
  • Roadblocks and obstacles are there to build you up, give you a chance to test your limits, and assist you in self-reflection.



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Production Team: Heather Knox, Knox Creative; Marion Abrams, Madmotion, llc.

Host: Dr. Lara Pence

Synopsis: Dr. Lara Pence

 

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0:00.0

We're talking about seeing obstacles as opportunities.

0:04.0

Hey Spartans, it's Dr. L. here, your chief mind doc was Spartan Mind.

0:12.0

Part of the Spartan Up Podcast family.

0:15.6

So we today are working on element two of our five-part series of what makes the mind of great competitors.

0:24.0

And the second element is great competitors

0:28.0

see obstacles as opportunities, not as roadblocks, right?

0:33.6

Because obstacles really are an opportunity

0:36.7

for us to not only have a growth edge, right,

0:41.0

and to grow and change from something that's in front of us that we find difficult,

0:45.0

but it's also an opportunity for us to establish a data point, right?

0:50.0

Obsticle immunity.

0:51.0

When we overcome an obstacle, we establish a data point that gets planted in our brain, in our mind, in our soul, in our heart that we can overcome more. And that's what great competitors do all the

1:06.2

time. Something that's in front of them that's difficult they see as an opportunity.

1:11.1

They get excited for it. They don't feel stuck. They don't pull back from it and

1:16.5

move away from it. They barrel towards it because they know it's going to get them stronger

1:21.6

in the long run, even if they struggle with that obstacle.

1:25.0

It's not necessarily about perfecting it or even blowing by it.

1:30.0

Sometimes the challenge and sometimes the struggle is the opportunity, but that is the second element.

1:36.5

Great competitors see obstacles as opportunities.

1:40.5

If you like what you hear, spread the word.

1:43.0

Tell your friends, subscribe and review on iTunes, or comment on YouTube.

1:48.0

Then come tell us what you think.

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