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The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

Moment 32 - Ant Middleton on How To Build A Bulletproof Mindset

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

FlightStory

Society & Culture, Business, Education

4.613.2K Ratings

🗓️ 18 November 2021

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

In these ‘Moment’ episodes of my podcast, I’ll be selecting my favourite moments from previous episodes of The Diary Of A CEO.

If you need advice on how to build a solid mindset, then Ant Middleton is certainly the man for the job. He’s been in some of the most dangerous, high-stress and uncomfortable situations on the planet which is why I felt compelled to ask him how he built a mindset strong enough to deal with extreme distress.

Ant talks eloquently on how he believes the answer lies within discomfort, something we’re not often pushed towards in the modern world. But with life’s inevitable chaos constantly on the horizon, building a strong mindset isn’t just desirable, it’s necessary.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

One of the questions that I really wanted to ask you because of what's going on in the

0:07.1

world with this whole pandemic in COVID is us thinking as I was like brushing my teeth

0:10.6

or whatever this morning, I was thinking, there's a ton, if my audience could ask you one

0:14.2

thing, probably would be around the fact that the world changed this year. A lot of people's

0:19.7

lives were at rooted, they lost their businesses, their jobs, whatever. And then I thought, you

0:24.0

know, ants probably, well, I for sure have been in situations where you felt like, where

0:29.2

whether it's on the battlefield or whatever, that this was a fight that where the odds were

0:34.1

against you. And in those moments, there's winners and losers. And you know, you always

0:38.8

talk about mindset. What is the mindset that people need in these moments where the odds

0:44.0

don't look like they're very much in their favour that you've seen from the battlefield

0:48.4

where you've emerged victorious because you didn't indulge in victimhood or whatever.

0:54.5

And you, and you, yeah, does that make sense? Yeah, it 100% makes sense. For me, it's about

1:04.0

embracing change, you know, majority of people, they live their life on autopilot or they

1:11.7

live in the void, I call it, where everything around them is changing. You know, the world

1:17.8

is constantly changing. Everything around us is constantly changing, whether it's climate

1:23.3

control, whether it's, you know, in the way that we think, the way that we're evolving,

1:28.8

the way that the world is going, the way that animals are evolving, the way that the

1:32.8

sea is encroaching or, you know, decreasing, whatever it may be, everything is changing

1:39.5

around us. And we are designed to a change with it. So what we're actually doing is we're

1:45.2

actually going against the grain when we become complacent, when we get comfortable, when

1:52.1

we get into one sort of situation and we stay in that situation, it's going, we're working

1:57.8

in the opposite way that the world should be evolving. We should be constantly changing,

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