NO Apologies for Excellence // WAY
The Hard Way w/ Joe De Sena
Spartan Races
4.7 • 870 Ratings
🗓️ 28 February 2019
⏱️ 5 minutes
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Summary
Zach brings on special guest & fellow Spartan Podcaster, Tosh, to discuss why you should NOT feel bad while standing up for Excellence! Sometimes we start to feel bad when our friends and family tell us, Hey, you’ve changed!
That’s right, you are changing for the better and there is Nothing wrong with that!
LESSONS:
• Do not conform to the norms of “good enough”, even when people close to you try to tell you that you’re trying too hard.
• Do not ease up on your mission. If you’ve done the work, you deserve to EARN more success.
• You should celebrate the fact that you want to win. When you win, you help other people win.
LINKS:
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CREDITS:
Producer – Marion Abrams, Madmotion, llc.
Host & Show Notes: Zach Even - Esh
© 2019 Spartan
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Has anybody ever said, hey, you've changed, I don't know what's happened to you? |
| 0:05.0 | Spartans, welcome back to a special episode of the Spartan Way. I'm here with fellow Spartan |
| 0:16.3 | podcaster Brian Chantosh and in this episode we're talking about making no apologies for excellence. |
| 0:24.1 | And sometimes we could feel bad when maybe our friends or colleagues |
| 0:28.3 | say, hey, you've changed. |
| 0:30.6 | And in that respect, they might be saying, you're climbing and you keep climbing why don't you just relax and chill out and the way this topic came about |
| 0:39.1 | Tosh is I'm listening to your episode on winning, which you may or may not have seen yet, and not just |
| 0:47.2 | winning, but dominating. |
| 0:49.2 | Winning 51-0 at halftime and then going out and not coasting during the second half of the |
| 0:54.6 | football game and it reminded me of a documentary on the U on Miami football. |
| 1:01.2 | The U was struggling with football. They bring a new football coach in who I believe was in the NFL. I believe he was with the Cowboys. |
| 1:09.0 | Not only do they beat Notre Dame, I believe they destroy Notre Dame. They're shutting them out when that Notre Dame coach is on his last game. |
| 1:18.7 | He's going to resign. During the press conference the coach says, I'm a little bit upset with the coach because this is my last game of my career. |
| 1:27.5 | They were destroying us at halftime and they didn't let up. They just on winning and the Miami coach said I have |
| 1:35.1 | zero apologies for dominating I'm not going to ease up we've done the work we've |
| 1:41.0 | prepared we're here to win we're not here to just, you know, win just by good |
| 1:47.7 | enough to just get by and it really hit home to me because sometimes we might be in an environment or around a circle of |
| 1:54.7 | people who say hey tosh or hey John hey Judy just chill out you're working too |
| 2:01.5 | harder you're winning enough what happens right we're winning do we just coast what do we do tosh |
| 2:07.0 | Yeah, it's a tough one zak I mean outside of the arena of competition where you know sportsmanship comes into question and what not |
| 2:15.8 | my arena being the military we had the saying called complacency kills |
| 2:20.0 | not to put forth your best effort all of the time to ride by to slide or just coast on status quo, |
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