Moving Away from the End Product / Spartan MIND 043

The Hard Way w/ Joe De Sena

Spartan Races

Fitness, Alternative Health, Health & Fitness, 792700

4.7 • 870 Ratings

🗓️ 5 June 2019

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

We have become pathologically attached to the end product of things. We focus more on the grade, the paycheck, the medal - all while ignoring the hard work and process that it took to get to the end. The problem with this is that when we only focus on the product, we are missing out on all the vital, awesome information that we can gather from the process. We need to look more towards all of the greatness that came before the product so that we don’t get attached to the wrong thing. And when we focus on process, we are more likely to gain important information that can tell us about how we were successful or how we missed the mark.

LESSONS:

Try to move away from just the end product and spend more time thinking about what got you there in the first place.
Remember that regardless of what happens in the end, there is important information in the process of getting there - be open to learning more about yourself through looking at your own process.
When you attach to the product, you risk letting yourself down when the end does not turn out the way that you want it to.

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Production Team: Heather Knox, Knox Creative; Marion Abrams, Madmotion, llc.

Host: Dr. Lara Pence

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Transcript

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0:00.0	What's up Spartans? It's Dr. L here, your Chief Mind Doc for Spartan Mind
0:09.2	where I'm here every Wednesday working to build up that mental toughness and
0:14.0	resiliency so that you don't have to worry about that mind when you're
0:17.5	working on that physical performance out on the race. All right so today we're
0:22.1	talking about how to move away from product and towards process.
0:28.6	Now what I mean by that is we as a society are attached to the end product, right?
0:36.0	We are obsessed with things like grades, salaries, yes,
0:40.4	Spartan metals, anything that is a symbol of our product, what we have built to the end.
0:48.2	The difficult part about that or what causes us some trouble I would say is that we are forgetting the process
0:55.0	before it right if we are only focusing on the end product we are not gaining
1:00.3	wisdom on what got us there in the first place or maybe what didn't get us there in the first
1:05.8	place and we are missing out on a whole lot of information that can help us elevate our game,
1:14.8	elevate our performance, right? So let me give you an example of this.
1:16.8	Let's say you've trained for months to run the Spartan Beast,
1:22.4	and all you can think about is getting that. for months to run the Spartan Beast.
1:22.5	And all you can think about is getting that metal
1:25.3	at the end, because that metal is going to be
1:27.1	a symbol of your accomplishment, OK?
1:29.6	But let's say somewhere at the end, you roll your ankle and you don't finish and you don't get that
1:36.2	metal.
1:37.2	Well you could walk away from that experience feeling like a complete failure because all you've focused on is that metal.
1:45.0	Now I get it. I mean that would definitely suck and I hear you those metals are right.
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