Conquering Challenges & The Power of Breaking Down Goals | Chadd Wright EP 477

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0:53The 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. Yeah. It seems so overwhelming. and 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, right?

1:35Six months, four months, three months. And so we become overwhelmed and in fear as opposed to just one step out of the 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. So 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.

2:15They didn't know if this was the last one or not. So 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 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 gotta climb a 2 ,000 foot mountain.

2:55How do you think I'd do it bro? I 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.

3:35That'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 and for me it's a beautiful thing man so I don't feel the pain well to reach that steady state to where everything's just boiled down and it's just so simple you're not stressing about who's calling you what's happening at home friends yeah you're not stressed about that stuff you're focused on one thing yeah and and so how one way that I manage that is I stop fighting against it. I literally just tell myself I accept this.

4:18Wow. 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. If 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. 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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