Jeremy Jones on Quieting the Mind and Confronting Fear with Snowboarding
The Daily Stoic
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🗓️ 17 December 2022
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
Ryan speaks with snowboarder Jeremy Jones about his new book The Art of Shralpanism: Lessons from the Mountains, why having discipline on the mountain saves lives, the relationship between courage and fear when approaching the dangers of snowboarding, and more.
Jeremy Jones is an American professional snowboarder,businessman, author and filmmaker. He is the founder of Jones Snowboards and the co-founder of Protect Our Winters, a nonprofit that works to reduce the effects of climate change. In 2012, Jeremy was picked by National Geographic as one of the Adventurer’s of the Year. You can find Jeremy’s work, including his books and the films that he makes about his snowboarding adventures (a childhood favorite of Ryan’s), on his website: www.jonessnowboards.com, and on Instagram and Twitter @jeremyjones.
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| 1:06.4 | Hey it's Ryan Holliday, welcome to another episode of the Daily Stoic podcast. I grew |
| 1:13.2 | up snowboarding. I guess skiing at first, I got into snowboarding maybe like fifth or |
| 1:17.6 | sixth grade. I just absolutely loved it. I would do it all the time. It was, I don't |
| 1:24.9 | know, maybe the first, like I don't think I wanted to be a professional baseball player, |
| 1:30.1 | basketball player. I guess I wasn't really good enough at those sports and running these |
| 1:33.9 | in the sport. Many people dream of being a pro at, but I wanted to be a pro snowboarder. |
| 1:40.1 | I loved it so much. And I think actually I was thinking about this the other day. The |
| 1:44.3 | first website I ever made was a snowboarding fan website on homestead.com, which was |
| 1:50.3 | some free web design thing I learned about as a kid. I just fell in love with this whole |
| 1:55.7 | world. That's actually how I first heard about today's guest many, many, many years ago. |
| 2:01.3 | So it's a complete and total honor for me to interview Jeremy Jones today. Jeremy's |
| 2:06.4 | a professional snowboarder and businessman. He's a founder of Jones snowboards. In addition |
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