Your Best Year Ever, Chapter 8: Seriously, Risk Is Your Friend
The Double Win
Michael Hyatt
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🗓️ 23 November 2023
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
In this chapter, Michael talks about the importance of embracing risk and stepping outside your comfort zone to achieve extraordinary results. He debunks the myth that setting ambitious goals is always risky and highlights the positive impact of goal setting on performance.
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| 0:00.0 | Well, hey there, it means the world to me that you've made it this far into the book. |
| 0:07.0 | Clearly, you've got some exciting things in your future. |
| 0:10.0 | I can't wait to cheer you on and have it your best year ever. I bet if you've made it this far, you really do feel like it's added a lot of value to your life. I mean, you wouldn't be listening this far if it hadn't, but would you be willing to share this with someone you |
| 0:24.2 | know, somebody you care about? If so, just take a quick second, hit the share button, and then |
| 0:29.6 | send it to someone in your life that you want to have their best year ever. |
| 0:36.6 | Chapter 8. |
| 0:38.2 | Seriously, Risk is your friend. |
| 0:41.0 | People don't brag about going up a grassy slope. They brag about going up |
| 0:44.4 | Everest. Penn Gillette. The comfort zone is a nice place but nothing grows |
| 0:49.2 | there. Caroline Cummings. Most of us have heard the popular story of the first marathon. |
| 0:55.2 | After the Athenians defeated Persian invaders at the Battle of Marathon in 490 BC, |
| 1:00.0 | a messenger ran 26 miles to share the exciting news. |
| 1:03.7 | In his book, The Road to Sparta, Ultra Marathon or Dean Carnassus, |
| 1:08.1 | shares the real story and it's far more compelling. |
| 1:11.2 | The runner whose nameless fadipides actually ran more than 150 miles all the way from Athens to Sparta and then back again before the battle. |
| 1:20.0 | And Carneses says the same runner might have run the final stretch after the victory at marathon for a total of more than 325 miles. |
| 1:28.0 | That might sound far-fetched, but Carnassus then recounts the story of British Air Force commander named John Fodden. |
| 1:35.0 | In 1982 he led a small group, or ran the distance from Athens to Sparta in under 35 hours. |
| 1:40.8 | A year later, Fodden co-founded a hundred and fifty 153-mile race retracing his steps. It's called the Spartalathon. |
| 1:47.0 | Karnass has ran it in 2014. As an ultra-marathoner, he'd already run 350 miles non-stop. |
| 1:54.1 | But the Spartaathon held mammoth challenges of its own, including Carnesus' determination |
| 1:59.3 | to run the distance with only the foods Fydipities would have eaten, olives, figs, and cured meats. |
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