The Best of 2014: The Moment Everything Starts With Sarah Peck

The Unmistakable Creative Podcast

Srinivas Rao

Society & Culture

4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 24 December 2014

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

In this best of 2014 episode, we revisit our interview with Sarah Peck. Sarah is an writer/designer/entrepreneur whose life has been deeply influenced by swimming and writing. In this chat we discuss lessons she’s learned on her journey from college swim team member to writer and open water swimmer, whose swims have included braving the treacherous waters of San Francisco bay to make it to Alcatraz and back.

Highlights

The “not good enough” narrative that we all deal with
Changing our narratives to serve us rather than sabotage us
Why we can’t be too hard on our egos
How learning not to stop can be life changing
Letting of the things we think we’re capable of for something better
Why it’s ok for things to be incredibly difficult
Trials and tribulations of Sarah’s college swimming experience
How open water swimming changed Sarah’s life
Why challenges, quitting, and obstacles reveal who we are
Leveraging incredible mental frameworks to overcome pain
Fighting through pain when you’re absolutely miserable
Why the worst of times reveals somebody’s true character
The correlation between happiness and hard work
Why pain is a signal from your body
Learning to recognize and leverage your areas of expertise
Why Sarah teaches writing as a mechanism to get access to your inner wisdom
The power of committing to the act of creating and doodling

Sarah Peck is a writer, open water swimmer, designer-entrepreneuer and urban nerd who is on a mission is to find and capture insights from everyday, extraordinary living an share them with others

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0:00.0	Don't be afraid to be miserable. I mean it sucks right? Like no one like diarrhea sucks puking sucks like I know these things like when you're in the middle of them you're like oh my god this is never ending I want to know like just like I'll trade anything to make this stop like being miserable sucks but don't be afraid of it right like it there's profoundness in it there's wisdom in it it shows who you really are.
0:22.8	Like, you know, watch somebody when they're in the best of times.
0:25.8	They're great people.
0:26.5	Watch somebody in the worst of times,
0:27.8	and you see who they really are.
0:29.0	And I'm not wishing terrible times
0:30.8	and everyone, but don't be afraid to be miserable.
0:33.4	And if people need examples of this, one of the things I love to do actually is just read
0:37.3	history.
0:38.3	Like read the histories of people who have created the greatest works that you admire because they're not these beautiful little
0:44.6	stories and if people have written them as beautiful stories remember that that's writing and that might not
0:50.0	actually be true because people who are living the life and
0:53.4	living the experience are often going through. I mean Mark Twain was an insurance
0:58.6	salesman. Like he wrote his books at night. He wrote his books after he could finish his job make the paycheck like a lot of the people we admire the most are the
1:08.7	Loneliest weirdest strangest most miserable people ever. So if we're looking for doing great work
1:15.7	and if that's the priority, and I would argue that,
1:18.0	like doing great work and having great love
1:19.9	are some of the biggest, biggest, if not the ultimate things in life, then like there's, then you're just
1:26.8	going to get the gamut of emotions and some of it's going to be not so good.
1:30.3	I actually, I think that, I think that society like preaching right now
1:33.6	the do what you love follow your passion everything should be great
1:36.9	happiness ideal is actually doing a lot of people a disservice because then they
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