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Chasing Excellence

Peter Rahal on the Hard Work of Building RXBar

Chasing Excellence

Ben Bergeron & Patrick Cummings

Self-improvement, Crossfit, Holistic Health, Mindset, Selfimprovement, Education, Wellness, Health & Fitness, Goalsetting, Health, Attainability, Fitness

4.82.2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2021

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Peter Rahal co-founded RXBar inside of a Chicago CrossFit gym, eventually selling to Kelloggs. He joins us to talk about the original vision of the business, the power of dyslexia, building culture, and the messy process of figuring out what's next.

Transcript

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0:00.0

You need things to go right.

0:01.9

You need to be smart, but you need to be hardworking.

0:03.7

And the way I think about it is like with entrepreneurship,

0:06.1

there is like a minimum level of intelligence.

0:10.1

There's like a say, some number, you have to be somewhat smart.

0:14.6

And then after that, it is all work ethic.

0:17.8

Like that's what differentiates the real winners

0:22.0

from everyone else.

0:25.1

But again, there is a threshold of it, like until I could be

0:27.3

smart, you don't want to be just be like,

0:28.8

don't have hardworking, you gotta be smart and hardworking.

0:33.1

And then things need to go right through.

0:35.8

We are here because we know the outcomes in our lives

0:38.4

are within our control.

0:40.3

That taking absolute ownership of how we eat, sleep,

0:43.2

train, think, and connect with each other

0:45.5

is how we'll optimize our health and happiness.

0:48.6

That chasing excellence is how we grab hold of what is possible.

0:52.7

Our mission is to live on the run.

0:55.3

Always chasing.

0:56.6

Never stop.

0:59.0

Hello, and welcome back to another episode

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