Ross Edgley on Swimming Around Great Britain and the Value of Resilience
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🗓️ 24 November 2021
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Ryan reads today’s daily meditation and talks to Ross Edgley about his 1,792 mile swim all the way around Great Britain, overriding the innate function of self-preservation to perform feats of endurance, the importance of protecting yourself against becoming too comfortable in life, and more.
Ross Edgley is an extreme adventurer, ultra-marathon sea swimmer and author. He holds multiple world records, but is best known for completing the World's Longest Staged Sea Swim in 2018 when he became the first person in history to swim 1,792 miles all the way around Great Britain in 157 days. Voted Performance of the Year by the World Open Water Swimming Association, he documented his training, nutrition, theories and strategies and published them in his books titled The World's Fittest Book (2018) and The Art of Resilience (2020) which both became No.1 Sunday Times Bestsellers and have been translated into several other languages.
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| 0:11.2 | Welcome to the Daily Stoic podcast where each weekday we bring you a |
| 0:16.3 | Meditation inspired by the ancient Stoics a short |
| 0:20.0 | passage of ancient wisdom designed to help you find strength and insight here in everyday life and on Wednesdays |
| 0:27.5 | We talk to some of our fellow students of ancient philosophy well-known and obscure |
| 0:34.0 | Fascinating and powerful with them. We discuss the strategies and habits that have helped them become who they are and |
| 0:40.9 | Also to find peace and wisdom in their actual lives |
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| 1:18.9 | Of course, it seemed hard to you when you first discovered it because sadly like the rest of us |
| 1:25.2 | You were not magically instantly transformed |
| 1:28.7 | Indeed however major the epiphanies you've had on your journey like the rest of us |
| 1:33.1 | You still seem to have your flaws you still lose your temper still yearn for this or that still |
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| 1:43.2 | Some days it can feel like you're failing |
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