The Delicate Dance Between Risk, Reward, and Death | Skiing Legend, Cody Townsend
Finding Mastery with Dr. Michael Gervais
Dr. Michael Gervais
4.7 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 19 January 2022
⏱️ 116 minutes
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Summary
This week’s conversation is with a legend, Cody Townsend, one of the most awarded skiers in freeskiing history.
Cody has evolved from a California beach kid obsessed with the mountains … to now stand atop the pinnacle of the sport.
From a successful alpine ski racing career to stunt doubling for Hollywood films, or skiing the “Most Insane Line Ever”, Cody skis some of the most challenging and dangerous lines on the planet - all with an affable nature and a smile on his face.
Cody’s latest project, called “The FIFTY,” is in his words, “simple” - it’s a goal he set to try to climb AND ski all fifty of the lines and mountains chronicled in the classic book, “The Fifty Classic Ski Descents of North America.”
From Alaska to Colorado, California to Baffin Island, these lines are among the most difficult in the world and all of them have at least one historical descent.
But no one has skied them all.
Cody’s goal is to change that. And in my opinion, there’s no one more suited to do so.
He’s about halfway through this project, and you can follow his progress on his YouTube channel… he uses skiing as his medium for insight, mastery and expression
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| 0:00.0 | I ended up flying off this cliff and it was about a 90 foot cliff and I landed on rock |
| 0:04.8 | off of it and I was very close to dying off of it. |
| 0:09.8 | And I remember that lesson, luckily I did not, but I had this feeling like your body something |
| 0:15.5 | was telling you that this was off and you were way too confident, you had way too much |
| 0:21.0 | ego to do a line like that. |
| 0:24.2 | And it was a huge reflection point. |
| 0:26.2 | Okay, welcome back. |
| 0:36.8 | Or welcome to the Finding Mastery podcast. |
| 0:39.6 | I'm Michael Jervé. |
| 0:41.0 | By trade and training, I am a sport and performance psychologist and unfortunate. |
| 0:45.8 | To work with some of the most extraordinary thinkers and doers across the planet and |
| 0:49.6 | I've got to tell you, I love my life, I love what I get to do. |
| 0:54.5 | And I love the idea of being able to share how they work. |
| 0:59.8 | And that's what this whole podcast, these conversations are about. |
| 1:03.8 | I don't have any of my clients on, but I have some of the most extraordinary thinkers |
| 1:09.0 | and doers across the planet literally pull back the curtain to share how they worked |
| 1:14.8 | towards mastering both their craft and their minds. |
| 1:18.6 | Now our minds are our greatest asset. |
| 1:22.2 | And if you want to learn more about how you can train your mind, this is just a quick |
| 1:25.0 | little reminder here to check out the online psychological training course that we built |
| 1:29.8 | where we pull together the best practices to meet that unique intersection of the psychology |
| 1:35.0 | of high performance and the psychology of well-being. |
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