What’s Your 4-Minute Mile? | Mindset Monday
The Tom Ferry Podcast Experience
Tom Ferry
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🗓️ 14 February 2022
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| 0:00.0 | What's your four minute mile? You know the story of Roger Battersteer. Like he basically said, |
| 0:04.9 | I'm going to beat the four minute mile. I'm going to be the fastest person to see |
| 0:07.8 | able to run this and literally add doctors telling him, if you attempt to do this, your heart will |
| 0:12.5 | explode and you will die. And what did he say? I'm obsessed. I'm committed. I'm going to do it |
| 0:18.4 | anyway. In the moment he broke that record, you know the story. What happened within a couple |
| 0:22.5 | of weeks is all of a sudden everybody else was able to do it. Why? What he did is he broke |
| 0:28.6 | through the glass ceiling. I know you. You have a perception of yourself. You have a belief |
| 0:35.2 | of yourself that says, well, no one in my family has ever earned more than this. I've never earned |
| 0:38.8 | more than this. Nobody in my office is working more than this. Nobody I know is making this kind |
| 0:42.9 | of money. Maybe that's just your four minute mile. Maybe that's something you need to get obsessed |
| 0:47.6 | and figure out. What do I need to do? What do I need to say? How do I need to market? How much more |
| 0:52.3 | value could I deliver? What are the things I could do that are unique or different that would allow me |
| 0:56.4 | to shatter that glass ceiling and beat the four minute mile. Tick-tock, tick-tock, you've heard |
| 1:03.1 | me say it before. Life is short. What are you committed to? Everybody's going to grind. Everybody's |
| 1:09.3 | going to hustle. But I love the quote. If you just grind with no sense of purpose, all you do is end |
| 1:15.9 | up as dust. |
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