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Hello and welcome back to the show.

Thank you so much for being here.

This is, as you may have already noticed, going to be the longest episode of Chasing

Excellence in the history of Chasing Excellence.

And I'm really excited about it.

Over the last year or so, maybe it's not about about the last year, we've had our friend

Chris Irwin on the show. We've had him on four

times to walk us through what he calls the mind killers, which are the ways we sabotage our

own mental fitness without even realizing it today. I wanted to bring all four of those

conversations together in one super cut, one super episode, hence the length. Chris, for those folks,

maybe if you haven't dived into those episodes yet, you're in for a treat. Chris is a retired

Navy SEAL and the creator of something called Rare Sense, which you can find at rare sense.com.

He's built a framework for training your mind just like we train our bodies.

In these conversations, across all four of them, we cover five mind killers and what he

calls their countermeasures, which are the tools you can actually use to get mentally fit.

One quick note before we dive into the first one throughout this entire episode you're going to hear in parts

of those conversations where I ask Chris to explain what the mind killers are so we do that a few

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