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The Playbook With David Meltzer

The Power of Solitude with Colin O’Brady

The Playbook With David Meltzer

David Meltzer, Entrepreneur.com

Entrepreneurship, Business, Careers

4.91.9K Ratings

🗓️ 26 May 2024

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

In today's episode, I chat with adventurer and author Colin O'Brady, whose experiences stretch from icy Antarctic treks to the endurance of the 12-Hour Walk. We discuss how challenges, both physical and mental, act as gateways to discovering our potential. Colin shares insights on how embracing our lowest moments can set the stage for our greatest achievements, emphasizing the transformative power of solitude and self-reflection in unlocking profound personal growth.

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0:00.0

This is the Playbook, where each week I bring you some of the greatest athletes, celebrities, and entrepreneurs to talk about their personal and professional playbook to success.

0:12.0

Welcome to Office Hours.

0:12.9

I'm David Belzer, and it's another world record

0:16.0

breaking hero here on Office Hours.

0:18.3

I'm known this guy for a while.

0:19.4

We did a challenge together during COVID.

0:22.2

He ran a mile and added a mile every day. I ran one yard and average one more yard every day.

0:31.0

I don't know why it was more difficult for me come those last week than

0:35.2

Colin O'Bredia, New York Times best-selling author of a book that changed my life

0:41.6

and it changed my life originally just by a curiosity of the title.

0:46.0

It was called the 12 hour walk and it had a guarantee to it that within this 12 hours somehow in one day or a half a day

0:55.6

if you believe in a man-made constructive time you could conquer your mind and

1:00.7

unlock your best life your potential and I said I don't have 12 hours to trust Colin O'Brady to do this then what am I here

1:10.5

for? I mean for God's, I ran a yard a day

1:13.6

and kept on adding one for him.

1:14.9

I might as well walk 12 hours.

1:17.6

It was better than I anticipated.

1:19.5

And the question I've been dying to ask you, brother,

1:22.1

welcome, by the way, to office hours, Colin O'Brady.

1:24.7

Thanks for having me brother, always good to see you. Great to see you.

1:28.3

Why does it work? Like, I mean, I meditate, I work out out although some people would argue not very well I guess but I work out every day

1:37.2

But I've never experienced something like that in all the different things that I participated

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