JOE DE SENA | Rules for Resilience
Order of Man
Ryan Michler
4.8 • 9.1K Ratings
🗓️ 21 December 2021
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Life is hard. We're all dealt with hands we don't particularly appreciate. But that's no reason to crumble and shirk our responsibilities. In the wake of difficulty, however, it can be challenging to drive on and power through.
My guest today, Joe De Sena, the founder of Spartan has made a life of doing just that and helping millions of people do the same for themselves. Today, Joe and I talk about what "true resilience" looks like, how discipline breeds responsibility, when it's okay to quit based on priorities, why you should make things harder, and rules for resilience for yourself and your family.
SHOW HIGHLIGHTS:
- Pushing and motivating your kids
- Being intentional with challenging your kids
- Humans are motivated by the avoidance of discomfort
- Why the four-day workweek is a bad idea
- Combating the influence of mediocrity
- Working hard is a competitive advantage
- Discipline breeds responsibility
- Becoming disciplined
- Creating your own consequences
- There are times when you should quit
- You have to pressure test yourself
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| 0:00.0 | Guys, life is hard. We're all dealt with hands. We don't particularly appreciate, but that's really no reason at all and no excuse to crumble and shirk our |
| 0:08.6 | Responsibilities in the wake of difficulty. However, I know it can be challenging to drive on and power through my guest today |
| 0:14.9 | Joe DeSena the founder of Spartan has made a life of doing just that and helping millions of people do the same for themselves |
| 0:21.8 | Today Joe and I talk about what true resilience looks like how discipline breeds responsibility |
| 0:27.2 | When it's actually okay to quit based on your priorities |
| 0:30.9 | Why you should consider making things harder in life for yourself and those you care about and also the rules for |
| 0:37.9 | Resilience for yourself and your family |
| 0:40.3 | You're a man of action you live life to the fullest embrace your fears and boldly charge your own path when life knocks you down |
| 0:47.4 | You get back up one more time every time you are not easily deterred |
| 0:52.0 | You're defeated rugged resilient strong. This is your life. This is who you are |
| 0:58.2 | This is who you will become at the end of the day and after all is said and done you can call yourself a man |
| 1:05.5 | Gentlemen, what is going on today? My name is Ryan Mickler. I'm the host and the founder of the Order of Men podcast and movement |
| 1:11.5 | If you are new today know that we are having conversations with absolutely incredible men |
| 1:16.2 | I think we've done at this point |
| 1:18.2 | 360 plus interviews and nearly 900 total podcasts on this journey over the past six and a half years now |
| 1:28.8 | So we've got some great information out there. It's gonna be hard a little hard to catch up at this point knowing we've been going for six and a half years |
| 1:36.0 | But we've had guys like Jocke Willink and David Goggins Tim Kennedy John Eldridge |
| 1:43.5 | Ben Shapiro Dan Crenshaw |
| 1:45.5 | Man you name it. We've had some incredible incredible men on the podcast and my guest today Joe DeSena is not only a repeat guest |
| 1:54.2 | But an incredible man himself and you guys are gonna hear a little bit about that as we have our discussion today |
| 2:00.2 | Before we get into it, let me just share and introduce you to my good friends over at origin |
| 2:06.9 | These guys are making durable products in goods |
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