Tony Riddle: A Conversation on the Benefits of Play and Imagination, Giving Our Freedom Away, and Running Barefoot

Align Podcast

Aaron Alexander

Society & Culture, Philosophy

4.8 • 923 Ratings

🗓️ 2 July 2021

⏱️ 68 minutes

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At what point in time between childhood and adulthood did we stop playing? Have we abandoned the child within us? What do we give our freedom to? In this episode of the Align Podcast, Tony Riddle and I chat about play and imagination's place in adulthood. When most of us look back to our childhood, we remember wanting to be older and wanting to abandon the child in us. And once we finally go through the rite of passage of becoming an adult, a lot of us continue to push the child within us away because we tend to associate our childhood with being vulnerable. However, those times where we were the most imaginative and most playful in our lives are what helped us learn and grow into who we are today. Therefore, going back to that state of play and imagination can only help us further develop ourselves. Plus, Tony talks about how fragile freedom is. In today’s world, we tend to develop materialistic tendencies that cause us to become attached to things. While we may think it is the material things that are taking our freedom away, it is actually the superficial attachment that we develop towards those things which causes us to lose our freedom. However, we do have the power to decide what we allow ourselves to be attached to, meaning that we can control what we value and give our freedom to. Tony Riddle, also known as The Natural Lifestylist, is a natural lifestyle coach, father, husband, author, and record-breaking barefoot endurance athlete. Tony is attempting to run the entire length of Great Britain, barefoot. To learn more about Tony: Website: tonyriddle.com Instagram: @t... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the Line Podcast. My name is Aaron Alexander and this is a place that we bring together the world's leading experts on all things health and wellness to help you optimize your mind, body, and movement.
0:11.0	Today's conversation has been a long awaited discussion with my new friend Tony Riddle.
0:18.0	He had a really interesting last couple of years where he's been breaking all sorts of records
0:25.6	particularly with not just ultra marathons more like across country voyages by foot but also barefoot. So a really impressive feet of
0:39.8	durability, endurance, mental tenacity, and he's been a student of the mind and the
0:48.6	body for all of his life. He's had a really interesting starting with clubbed feet as a little guy,
0:55.8	congenital, he came out that way and really unwinding those patterns and now being an absolute record-breaking leader in the space of endurance
1:06.7	athleticism. So this conversation was far-reaching, really fun, really fascinating,
1:12.3	and we get into the depths of the mind of Tony Riddle.
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