Telling Stories, Hard Conversations, & Life Lessons
Chasing Excellence
Ben Bergeron & Patrick Cummings
4.8 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 17 November 2020
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
We're back at our 3x3 this week, talking self-fulfilling prophesies that don't serve us, ways to enter into difficult conversations, and the lessons I've learned the hard way.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Now, the analogy to this is the elephant and the rider. |
| 0:04.2 | The elephant is your emotions. |
| 0:07.3 | The rider is your logic. |
| 0:09.6 | We like to think that the rider, riding the elephant, controls where the rider knows where |
| 0:15.7 | the path goes. |
| 0:16.7 | They know where the destination is. |
| 0:18.0 | They know how to get from point A to point B. |
| 0:21.2 | The elephant is just the big dumb animal. |
| 0:23.4 | But what the reality is, is the big dumb animal is really in control. |
| 0:28.4 | We are here because we know the outcomes in our lives are within our control. |
| 0:32.9 | That taking absolute ownership of how we eat, sleep, train, think and connect with each |
| 0:37.3 | other is how we'll optimize our health and happiness. |
| 0:41.2 | That chasing excellence is how we grab hold of what is possible. |
| 0:45.3 | Our mission is to live on the run. |
| 0:48.1 | Always chasing. |
| 0:49.1 | Never stop. |
| 0:50.1 | Hello and welcome back to another episode of chasing excellence. |
| 0:56.6 | How are you been? |
| 0:57.6 | Good Patrick, thank you. |
| 0:59.8 | We are going to go back to our three by three. |
| 1:03.5 | This episode, our three by three is when I present you with three ideas, three topics, |
| 1:08.1 | and you are to give us your three hot takes on each one of those. |
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