The Attributes of Optimal Performance / Rich Diviney & Joe De Sena

The Hard Way w/ Joe De Sena

Spartan Races

Fitness, Alternative Health, Health & Fitness, 792700

4.7 • 870 Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2021

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

What are the essential attributes you need to succeed? On a Spartan course, as an athlete or an entrepreneur? Rich Diviney served over 20 years as a Navy SEAL Officer. His new book “The Attributes” defines the key qualities, how to assess them, and how to develop them.

In a career spanning over twenty years, Rich completed more than thirteen overseas deployments—eleven of which were to Iraq and Afghanistan. He served on multiple SEAL teams and in several leadership positions, including as a commanding officer for a SEAL squadron. As an officer in charge of training, Rich was intimately involved in an extremely specialized SEAL selection process, which whittles a group of exceptional candidates down to small cadre of the most elite optimal performers.

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CREDITS:

Producer – Marion Abrams, Madmotion, llc.

Host: Joe De Sena

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0:00.0	and you spend hundreds of hours running around with heavy boats on your head
0:04.9	you spend hundreds of hours peeing with 300 pound telephone poles and running with
0:09.1	those things and freezing in the surf zone and I you know I spent just under 21 years in the SEAL teams and I did hundreds of combat
0:14.8	missions and I did thousands of training evolutions and never on one of those did I ever carry a boat on my
0:20.9	head or a telephone pole on my shoulder, right?
0:23.2	So what that told us and told me as I was doing this research was that what they were doing
0:28.6	to us in seal training wasn't
0:33.0	skills that seals that seals need in terms of shooting a gun or skydiving.
0:38.0	What they were doing was seeing if we could do the job,
0:40.0	if we had what it took, because inherently special operations is uncertain it's
0:44.7	unknown and you're thrown into these environments of deep uncertainty stress and
0:48.4	challenge and you are expected to perform.
0:51.1	Welcome to the Spartan Up Podcast with Joe Descena, founder and CEO of Spartan Race.
0:58.0	We are talking about overcoming obstacles. The same way we teach people to get over obstacles on the course,
1:08.0	we will teach you here on a Spartan Up podcast to get over obstacles in your mind.
1:12.0	What are the essential attributes you know? to get over obstacles in your mind.
1:13.0	What are the essential attributes you need to succeed on a Spartan course as an athlete or as an entrepreneur?
1:19.0	Rich Davenny served over 20 years as a Navy SEAL officer.
1:22.0	His new book, The Attributes, defines those
1:24.9	key qualities, how to assess them and how to develop them. Today's episode of
1:30.7	Spartan Up is brought to you by Better Help.
1:33.0	Spartan Up listeners can save 10% on their first month
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