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🗓️ 1 August 2019
⏱️ 7 minutes
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This week Joe De Sena fills in for Zach Even-Esh and talks about commitment. Who do you quit? How can you game your own mind and emotions to stay on track and achieve your goals?
Zach will be back soon with more of the great SPartan WAY episodes you love.
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0:00.0 | Hey guys, Jo DeSena here for Spartan Wei. I am filling in for Zach because I am committed. |
0:07.0 | What does that mean? |
0:08.0 | Today we're going to talk commitment. |
0:09.0 | We all commit to like a New Year's resolution, we commit to building a new business, we commit to a relationship, |
0:18.0 | but by and large when you look at the numbers, almost everybody quits. Why is that? What could we learn from all these people |
0:27.6 | quitting or the ones that stick to it? What could we learn? What could we learn |
0:32.2 | from them? Here's what we found. Here's what the science |
0:35.0 | says. You've got to do a couple of things for a commitment to be followed through. One, you've |
0:39.7 | either got to have a steel trap and just like be one of those people that when you commit to something it doesn't matter |
0:46.1 | hell or high water you are going to get it done but 99% of us aren't those people. Years ago, I started something called a death race, |
0:54.9 | over a decade ago. |
0:56.5 | And in the first few years, what I found was 3, 400 people |
1:00.4 | would show up. |
1:01.7 | And right away, 70 or 80% of them would. people would |
1:05.0 | quit and I thought to myself I don't understand. |
1:08.0 | They have spent an entire year training for this thing. |
1:12.0 | They worked their ache ass off to get here. They spent all |
1:15.9 | kinds of money. They had family and friends watching. Why would they quit? |
1:23.3 | They weren't committed. |
1:24.6 | So here's what I did. |
1:26.2 | I said, we're going to make them put in a local newspaper |
1:30.8 | article that they are doing the death race and they're going to finish. |
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