Life With The Mindset of a Spartan, with Steven Pressfield and Mike Sandrock / CLASSIC

The Hard Way With Joe De Sena

Spartan Races

Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Education

4.8 • 874 Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2021

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

"It's a snowstorm and they had already run 10 miles in the morning, they had skied all day, black double diamonds. And they were going out, it was dark, freezing cold, and they were going out for another 10 mile run! And Prefontaine was like, 'Ah, Frank, maybe we should just do 5,' and Frank's comment was, 'No one in the world is training harder than us right now,'" says Mike Sandrock, author of Running Tough and Running With Legends.

This week's classic episode dives into what creates the toughest people and the Spartan mindset. In this episode you'll learn…

How to change your frame of reference in life so the challenges that pop up aren't so tough
Importance of self-discipline, self-reinforcement, and creating your own choices
Creating "Positive Pressure"
Training for good luck
Inspiration is hard work, some people aren't meant for the comfortable life

If you want to watch the full episodes,

Steven Pressfield's Lessons from the Original Spartans - https://youtu.be/k1DTyOmaydA

Lessons from the Worlds Toughest Running Legends ep.014 - https://youtu.be/5mET2FQhh24

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CREDITS:

Producer: Lake Watters

Hosts: Johnny Waite, Joe De Sena

Co-Hosts: Sefra Alexandra, Col. Nye

Sr Producer: Marion Abrams

Transcript

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0:00.0	It's a snowstorm and they already run 10 miles in the morning.
0:03.2	They had skied all day, black double diamonds,
0:05.7	and they were going out, it was dark, freezing cold,
0:07.6	and going out for another 10 mile run.
0:09.3	And Pre-Fontane is like, oh, Frank, you know,
0:11.1	maybe we should just do five and Frank's comment was,
0:14.4	no one in the world is training harder than us right now.
0:18.1	Welcome to the Spartan endurance series on the Spartan Up Podcast.
0:22.3	In today's classic episode of Spartan Up, we talked to two authors who spent their lives
0:27.0	studying performance, perseverance, drive.
0:30.0	The first is Stephen Pressfield, who's well known for his studies of the Spartan culture, but also for helping writers to overcome what he calls resistance.
0:37.0	The second is Mike Sandrock, author of the book Running Tough.
0:40.0	It studies what the toughest, greatest endurance runners did to train themselves physically, but especially mentally.
0:47.0	You are going to walk away from this episode with an amazing new set of tools to get your mindset right.
0:52.0	And we've included the original
0:53.9	introductions from our classic panel Colonel Nye, Sefer the Seed
0:57.1	Huntress, Johnny Waite, and of course Jodicenna. This episode of Spartan Up
1:01.8	is brought to you by Dore Lane, a single injection that may provide up to six months relief from osteoarthritis knee pain.
1:08.0	Risks can include general knee pain and pain at the injection site. You can see full prescribing information at doorlane.com.
1:16.0	We are here in Pittsfield Spartanup Podcast.com. I've got saffra, the wilderness refugee, what do we call it?
1:22.0	I like it, I like it.
1:24.0	It's got better.
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