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Boundless Life

The Brave Athlete: Calm the F*ck Down and Rise to the Occasion

Boundless Life

Ben Greenfield

Self-improvement, Education, Health & Fitness, Fitness

4.65.3K Ratings

🗓️ 5 July 2018

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

It's high time to dig into another one of the dog-eared books on my shelf - one of those titles that I folded over, highlighted and scribbled in profusely. The book, entitled, "", claims to solve the 13 most common mental conundrums athletes face in...

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0:00.0

Dade!

0:01.0

At least that's what they say over here in Estonia.

0:04.0

This is Ben Greenfield.

0:05.3

I'm in Estonia.

0:06.3

I'm actually living in Estonia for the next several weeks.

0:09.5

My children are going to a little international university over here called Mind Valley U.

0:15.9

And I'm also speaking at this Mind Valley U event.

0:21.4

So Tallinn, Europe.

0:23.4

I'm eating Elk sausages and drinking meat soup and toasting folks with honey meat and

0:29.5

spiced wine.

0:30.5

I'm living like a night, basically, literally.

0:33.2

I'm learning how to sword fight and juggle puppets and all sorts of things that they did

0:38.3

back in the medieval days to make humans great.

0:41.0

Anyways, speaking of making humans great, today's podcast is with the authors of a fantastic

0:50.0

book that I read last month about forming an identity for yourself as an athlete or

0:59.6

as a competitor or as anyone who has a lot on the line when it comes to stress, physical

1:07.2

stress, mental stress, etc.

1:10.2

These folks sort of great book.

1:11.8

We will unveil the title of the book shortly and you can check out the show notes for

1:16.5

everything that we talk about today.

1:17.9

And I will also give you the URL for the show notes during today's episode.

1:21.7

Decided it'll be all mysterious.

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