Russ Cook | Africa Runner on Mindset, God & Getting Kidnapped in Congo
Disruptors
Rob Moore
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🗓️ 18 November 2024
⏱️ 106 minutes
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Rob interviews Russ Cook, known as the "Hardest Geezer," who made history by becoming the first person to run the entire length of Africa. Over 352 days, Cook covered more than 10,000 miles while facing kidnapping, health crises, and extreme challenges. Rob and Russ talk resilience, faith, politics, and entrepreneurship, giving their unique ideas on everything from personal growth to society.
Russ Cook REVEALS:
- Being kidnapped in the Congo
- Why he discovered Christianity and what it means to his success
- How he remains humble
- How it felt to be the first person to run the entire length of Africa
- How he ensured he couldn't quit running
- The serious health issues he suffered during the run
BEST MOMENTS
"I didn't start off an amazing runner or anything, but I've been out there an awful lot. I guess it's like with you in business, similar kind of principle, just you go put yourself out there. You try, try, try, you fuck it up a little bit, then you learn from it."
"I made quitting so painful that it meant I could bear quite a lot before I would even think about quitting."
"The pain of quitting was just always way more intense than, than anything else."
"Create your own luck and roll with that."
"Be fucking serious about your work, but not serious about life and what people say to you and the shit you read online."
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| 0:00.0 | Russ, are you the hardest man in the world? |
| 0:04.0 | I mean, you call yourself the hardest geyser. |
| 0:07.0 | Hardest man in the world? |
| 0:09.0 | I don't think so to be there. |
| 0:12.0 | I've probably got to say, yeah, for the brand rep now, and I'm the hardest geyser. |
| 0:16.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:17.0 | Yeah, I'm the hardest geyser ever. |
| 0:18.0 | In the whole world ever. |
| 0:19.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:20.0 | Five UFC fighters, you take a map. |
| 0:22.0 | Bang, bang, bang. |
| 0:23.1 | Left hook, right hook, upper cart. |
| 0:24.4 | Boom. |
| 0:25.0 | Gone. |
| 0:25.8 | Out of it. |
| 0:26.7 | No problem. |
| 0:28.2 | But there are different types of hard, aren't there? even the toughest guys in the world surely couldn't deal with? Well, yeah, I mean, it's niche. |
| 0:39.8 | It's definitely niche. |
| 0:42.0 | But I think it's one of them where anything's possible really when you start really putting |
| 0:46.7 | your mind to it. |
| 0:47.2 | And I'm not a massively gifted or talented runner or there's no real physical. |
| 0:53.5 | I'm not a physical specimen of any kind, but I had |
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