Making the Games Season Better (HopperTalk #12)
Chasing Excellence
Ben Bergeron & Patrick Cummings
4.8 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 20 September 2022
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
We’ve got four questions this round of HopperTalk - discussing ways we think the CrossFit Games season could improve, Eckhart Tolle, noise, misinformation, and more.
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Questions Answered:
01:00 - What are two ways you would make the CrossFit season better?
06:00 - What’s the one problem you want to be known for helping solve?
08:30 - What are we living in the golden age of?
15:35 - What is the single most liberating thought you’ve ever had?
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About Us:
👉🏼 Ben Bergeron is a best-selling author, coach to 7 CrossFit Games champions, and founder of CompTrain.
👉🏼 Patrick Cummings is a long-time CrossFitter, podcaster, and creator of Functional Branding.
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| 0:00.0 | We are here because we know the outcomes in our lives are within our control. |
| 0:10.4 | That taking absolute ownership of how we eat, sleep, train, think and connect with each |
| 0:14.9 | other is how we'll optimize our health and happiness. |
| 0:18.7 | That chasing excellence is how we grab hold of what is possible. |
| 0:22.8 | Our mission is to live on the wrong. |
| 0:25.6 | Always chasing. |
| 0:26.8 | Never stop. |
| 0:27.8 | Hello and welcome back to another episode of Chasing Excellence. |
| 0:32.0 | How are you doing, Ben? |
| 0:33.0 | I'm doing really good. |
| 0:34.0 | Thank you, Patrick. |
| 0:35.0 | We're going to do hopper talk today. |
| 0:36.0 | Hopper talk is when I go to the internet and pull out mostly random questions, things |
| 0:42.1 | that we don't often talk about though, as the first one is certainly one in our real |
| 0:46.8 | house. |
| 0:47.8 | And usually I just go to Reddit, find some fun questions, then we kind of bounce back |
| 0:50.5 | and forth, see where our answers align or differ. |
| 0:54.2 | The first one, however, is actually from a listener. |
| 0:57.1 | I think they meant it as a two-minute drill, but I thought it'd be fun as a hopper talk. |
| 1:00.1 | So we'll just dive right into it. |
| 1:01.7 | What are two ways you would make the CrossFit season better? |
| 1:04.8 | I'll let you go first. |
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