The Two Essentials to Success with Ed Mylett & Joe De Sena
The Hard Way With Joe De Sena
Spartan Races
4.8 • 874 Ratings
🗓️ 18 August 2020
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Ed Mylett is one of the fifty wealthiest individuals under fifty - what has been his strategy? In this episode, Joe De Sena challenges you to find the two essential elements. In Ed'd life he first found his catalyst, what motivates him. Mylett's mantra became "Bella's Wedding." After a doctor gave him advice, he used that as his way to navigate decisions - will this help or hurt my ability to walk my daughter down the aisle? It's the process and the pursuit of his goals that truly gives him joy. Winning is actually an art form. This episode will reframe how you view success and make you realize you are always able to do one more!
LESSONS
1. Find your catalyst aka "Bella's Wedding"
2. Understand leverage
3. Learn linking & anchoring
4. The joy is in the pursuit
5. Help others
6. Winning is an art form
7. TRUST the process
8. Don't avoid pain
9. Find passion
10. Feed your identity
11. Believe that you deserve what you want
12. Self confidence is keeping promises to yourself
13. Always do one more
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LINKS
https://www.edmylett.com
TIME STAMPS
1:00 Joe tells us what we are going to learn today
2:00 ATHLETICBREWING.COM intro
2:30 Interview begins with Ed & his fitness regime
4:00 Conversations around testosterone
6:30 A wakeup call around health: "Bella's Wedding"
9:00 Pleasure versus pain
10:00 Finding leverage & the Spartan Paradox
12:00 The joy of pursuing goals
14:00 Redifining crazy
15:45 Most important thing is to help others
17:30 Mentoring at an orphanage
19:30 How do you demonstrate what success looks like?
20:45 ATHLETICBREWING.COM break
24:00 Winning as an art form
27:30 Always more to give
30:00 Missionary work
32:00 Tips for those who have to much comfort
33:00 Tips for those who have to "fight for milk"
36:30 Believe that you deserve what you want
38:30 Always do one more
39:30 What Joe got from this interview
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CREDITS:
Producer – Marion Abrams, Madmotion, llc.
Hosts: Joe De Sena
Sefra Alexandra, Johnny Waite & Colonel Nye send their regards :)
Production Assistant - Andrea Hagarty
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| 0:00.0 | I think winning is like a lot science but most winners there's an art form to it. |
| 0:06.0 | They enjoy the creative process they enjoy the struggle oddly enough right and |
| 0:11.7 | that's kind of like my business philosophy. I trust my process and I want to give myself enough chances to win. And frankly, I'm not devastated when I don't win. Because my ultimate outcome is to give myself enough chances at |
| 0:24.8 | winning that ultimately the odds are stacked in my favor that I end eventually |
| 0:28.8 | win. Welcome to Spartan Up Podcast I am Joe Descenta, CEO and founder of Spartan and |
| 0:36.1 | you're a weekly kicking the ass here on Spartan Up the podcast. We got Ed Mylet |
| 0:41.0 | Ed Mylet and I have been going back and forth for at least three years now. |
| 0:44.0 | This guy is like a super motivator. |
| 0:45.0 | Apparently, he only got into it because Tony Robbins, you've heard of Tony Robbins, I don't |
| 0:50.0 | care how young you are, said to him, listen, Ed, you're a good guy. If you don't do this, if you don't |
| 0:56.6 | become like an influencer on Instagram and all these social channels, some other lunatics are going to |
| 1:01.6 | do this and our kids the children the next generation |
| 1:04.5 | Shouldn't be motivated shouldn't be learning from some of these screwballs they need Ed Mylet and others like you so that's why you got into it |
| 1:12.1 | You know there's a couple of things he |
| 1:13.5 | points out which is really interesting that that will change your life and so when you |
| 1:17.4 | listen to this podcast you're watching I want you to point those two out |
| 1:20.3 | stick them in the comments I want to see if you got them right. |
| 1:23.5 | But he really highlights these two life lessons |
| 1:27.2 | that I think we should all, you know, not only grass, |
| 1:30.6 | but we should strangle. |
| 1:33.2 | The other thing that's interesting is you know when you see him, it's kind of a turn off at |
| 1:37.8 | time and you see the fancy cars and the nice house and all that. |
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