Conquering Challenges & The Power of Breaking Down Goals | Chadd Wright

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0:43The biggest reason that people quit is because they're looking at the big picture, man. With SEAL training, there's no single evolution that's that difficult. Yeah. Really, I mean, it's four mile runs and two mile swims, and it's nothing that you couldn't get up from this table and go do right now. But the guys that quit, they couldn't break it down into digestible pieces. One hour at a time, one moment at a time, one day at a time. Yep. It seems so overwhelming. You're like, if I can't do this right now, if I'm struggling in this moment, how am I going to take on all of this? six months, four months, three months.

1:27We become overwhelmed and in fear as opposed to just one step at a time. That's it, brother. I remember an evolution during Hell Week. All it was was a one-mile repeat. All you got to do is run one mile over and over again until we tell you to stop. I'm out here like, heck yeah, dude. All I got to do is run one mile at my own pace on a sunny Beach on Coronado Island. But that was the single evolution during Hell Week where we lost the most guys. Certain people just could not focus on that mile, dude. All they could think about was all the miles in front of them. They didn't know if this was the last one or not.

2:08So they looked at it as a big picture and they just couldn't handle it. And really it was the easiest evolution that we did in all of Hell Week. Do you remember how many miles you actually ran? Dude, I have no clue. And what the instructors do, they just keep it going until enough people quit. And they're like, okay. And then they call it. And I take that now into like ultra running and even three of seven, you know, the business model for three of seven and all that we have going on with that. It's just like, you know, conquer what's like right in front of you. When I'm 95 miles deep into a race and I've got to climb a 2 ,000 foot mountain, how do you think I'd do it, bro?

2:47I mean, I pick a tree 20 yards ahead of me, and I get to that tree, and then I pick another tree, and then eventually I'm at the summit. How do you manage the mind that wants to tell you to stop when it seems like there's so much ahead of you, but you're just going 10 feet at a time? How do you do that? If you will push yourself hard enough, you reach this place, I call it the steady state, and it's where it's not going to hurt any worse, and it's not going to get any harder. It's the steady state, man. It's going to stay hard. It's going to just stay just like that. That's exactly right. And it's almost like a primal feeling, like everything else is stripped away, and all I have to deal with is this pain, physical pain that I'm feeling.

3:39And for me, it's a beautiful thing, man. To feel the pain? Well, to reach that steady state to where everything's just boiled down and it's just so simple, dude. You're not stressing about who's calling you, what's happening at home, friends, war. You're not stressed about that stuff. You're focused on one thing. Yeah. And so how one way that I manage that is I stop fighting against it. I literally just tell myself, I accept this. Wow. And I almost just like in my mind's eye, I see it passing through me. The pain. The pain. And you can use this with all different types of things that are uncomfortable, like cold.

4:22if you stop will stop fighting against it it diminishes its power but as long as long as you're fighting against the pain or you're using your energy to fight against the cold it's going to continue to gain traction and power over your mind yeah so it's just forcing yourself to let go and stop fighting against that discomfort and just rock and roll man

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