We often exaggerate the potential consequences of an action to spare ourselves the burden of making a difficult choice or any choice at all.

And I think it's important for everyone listening here to remember and think about your own life.

If you're sufficiently old enough, which most people here are probably at least 12, 13, 14, 15 years old, and you've endured some challenges in life.

It's important to remember that you have a perfect track record for making it through your toughest days.

If you are incapable of dealing with life's challenges, you wouldn't be here right now.

Now, that doesn't mean that tougher challenges aren't going to present themselves again in the

future, but you can't control what will happen then. You can only trust your ability to deal

with whatever life throws at you.

That's Alex Osberg today on the final episode of the Running Effect podcast in 2024.

If you guys have listened to the podcast this year, which I'm assuming you have based

on the fact you're listening to this one currently, I appreciate you.

I thank you for taking time out of your busy life and spending it with me

and my guests this year has been an absolute blessing. And we dive into a lot of that in today's

conversation, ups, the downs, the lessons, the learnings, from both the running effect as well as

Alex and I sit down and recap our three biggest lessons in learnings from 2024.

This was a really interesting thought-provoking conversation as it tends to be anytime I

have Alex on the podcast. And if you're not familiar with Alex, which I'd kind of be shocked

if you weren't at this point because he comes on the podcast quite frequently at this point.

He was a seven-time All-American

back in college at both Stanford and the University of North Carolina and is currently an

assistant coach at the Bowerman Track Club. Alex is a mentor. He's a friend. He is wise beyond his

years. And so I always thoroughly enjoy these conversations. But I had the idea for the final episode

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