MAT FRASER | Hard Work Pays Off
Order of Man
Ryan Michler
4.8 • 9.1K Ratings
🗓️ 8 February 2022
⏱️ 83 minutes
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Summary
The path to personal progress and growth can be a frustrating road. Change is often incremental or barely noticeable and, because so, many men choose to throw in the towel way too soon before they give themselves a fighting chance to change the trajectory of their lives.
Today, I'm joined by 5-Time Fittest Man on Earth, Mat Fraser, to talk about the path of hard work. We cover tiny progressions along the way, looking for and being ready to capitalize on opportunities, the dangers in tying your identity to performance, the pros and cons of self-criticism, what he refers to as the "Rubber Band Theory," and other psychological strategies he employed on his way to becoming the most dominant CrossFit Athlete in its history.
SHOW HIGHLIGHTS:
- Hanging out with the Black Rifle team
- Do dangerous things, carefully
- Don't build your entire identify on what you are doing currently
- Pay attention to the little things
- Gaining the psychological advantage against competitors
- Don't let your ego undermine your strategy
- Always find the silver lining
- When is it appropriate to engage with haters
- Using resentment as a motivator
- Using small goals to reach larger ones
- Get obsessive over the right things
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| 0:00.0 | The path to personal progress and growth can be a frustrating road. Changes often so incremental |
| 0:06.0 | or barely even noticeable. And because so, a lot of men choose to throw in the towel way too soon |
| 0:12.3 | before they even give themselves a fighting chance to change the trajectory of their lives. |
| 0:17.2 | Today I'm joined by five-time fittest man on earth, Matt Fraser, to talk about the path of hard work. |
| 0:23.4 | We cover tiny progressions along the way, looking for and being ready to capitalize on opportunities, |
| 0:30.0 | the dangers in tying your identity to performance, also the pros and cons of self-criticism, |
| 0:36.6 | what he refers to as the rubber band theory and other psychological strategies that he employed |
| 0:43.6 | on his way to becoming the most dominant crossfit athlete in its history. |
| 0:47.7 | You're a man of action. You live life to the fullest, embrace your fears, and boldly charge |
| 0:52.5 | your own path. When life knocks you down, you get back up one more time, every time. You are not |
| 0:58.4 | easily deterred and defeated, rugged, resilient, strong. This is your life. This is who you are. |
| 1:05.5 | This is who you will become. At the end of the day and after all is said and done, you can call |
| 1:10.8 | yourself a man. Gentlemen, what is going on today? My name is Ryan Mickler. I'm your host and also |
| 1:16.1 | the founder of the Order of Man podcast and movement. It is incredible to see what we've been able |
| 1:21.2 | to accomplish over the past nearly seven years now. I said the other day on Instagram or Facebook |
| 1:29.6 | posts, somewhere on socials, I said, you know, I might be the voice in the face behind what we're |
| 1:34.1 | doing here, but you guys are the engine. Before we get into the conversation today, I just wanted to |
| 1:39.0 | thank you for the work that you've done. Thank you for sharing the podcast, leaving ratings and |
| 1:45.2 | reviews, sharing episodes and conversations with other people, reading the book, sending it to friends. |
| 1:52.0 | Like I said, you guys are the engine and I would be remiss if I didn't say thank you for all the work |
| 1:57.7 | that you've done on helping me myself become a better man. So guys, we've got a great conversation |
| 2:03.5 | with the one and only Matt Fraser today. Before we get into it, I just want to also extend a thank |
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