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🗓️ 3 August 2022
⏱️ 80 minutes
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World record-setting adventurer and best-selling author, Colin O'Brady enters the mind meld! His new book, The 12 Hour Walk is available now.
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In this one, we riff on the lost art of initiation, why most people get trapped in mediocre lives, the counter-intuitive path to reaching greatness, the mystical experience Colin had during his most grueling trial, and more!
Colin O'Brady holds 10 world records. He's the first person to cross Antarctica on foot. He rowed across Drake Passage, one of the world's most treacherous stretches of ocean. He also summited some of the world's tallest peaks in record time (among other things).
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0:00.0 | Now administering third-eyed drops. |
0:17.0 | Hello, dear friends. |
0:18.0 | My name is Michael Philip. |
0:20.0 | And in this time of spiritual listlessness in this drought of purpose, |
0:28.0 | we seem to be experiencing, it is exceedingly easy to get caught up in the wrong path |
0:35.0 | to pursue avenues of supposed meaning-making that are really to put it bluntly a waste of time. |
0:45.0 | I mean, I've come across dozens and dozens of quote-unquote hacks, self-help books, |
0:53.0 | New Age Mirages, gurus, people who swear they aren't gurus, but really are employing the playbook of a guru. |
1:02.0 | And it all leads to this confusion, this murk, this kind of philosophical sewage. |
1:09.0 | That's just so thick that it almost seems like the real thing isn't out there. |
1:14.0 | That there is no true path to meaning-making. |
1:18.0 | I've certainly felt that way many times. |
1:22.0 | But thankfully, that is not the case. |
1:24.0 | There really are rare people who've done the hard work and come away with something real, |
1:31.0 | who've returned with the elixir to put it into mythological terms. |
1:36.0 | And my friends, Colin O'Brady is absolutely one of those people. |
1:43.0 | He holds 10 world records. |
1:46.0 | He's accomplished insane feats like walking clear across Antarctica completely by himself, totally unassisted, |
1:55.0 | pulling hundreds of pounds of supplies through the incredibly harsh elements there. |
2:01.0 | He's summited some of the world's tallest peaks in record time. |
2:06.0 | He's rode across the Drake passage, which is the section of ocean between South America and Antarctica, noted for its harshness. |
2:17.0 | He's just a truly incredible athlete with an even more incredible mind. |
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